The dynamic monitoring and management of coastal zone with SAR remote sensing and fractal approach

It is known that coastal zone and its environments are the complex and specialized areas. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with all weather is the powerful tools for monitoring the dynamic changes of those regions, and fractal approaches may be a good ideal technologies for managements on the unprecedented amount of information from the coastal spatial and temporal processes and remote sensing images etc. database. The needs of coastal dynamic monitoring are introduced at the first. The imaging mechanisms and the technologies as well as the example studies of SAR detecting coastal zone are described in detail.