Impacts of land use on estuarine water quality

The paper stresses the need for establishment of a large scale coastal monitoring and management program, noting that such a program cannot be accomplished under present traditional sampling procedures and current funding and staffing levels. Attention is given to the application of existing remote sensing techniques (both aircraft and satellite), by the Environmental Protection Agency, to monitoring and management schemes in the nation's coastal zone. Emphasis is placed on the use of remotely acquired data to help establish land-use/water quality relationships in estuarine systems