**Meet the editor**

Dr. Maged Marghany received his Ph.D. from the University Putra Malaysia in 2000. He was also awarded the ESA Post-doctoral Fellowship by the International Institute of Aerospace and Earth Observation (ITC) in Enschede, the Netherlands, in 2001. Dr. Maged Marghany is microwave remote sensing expert. Currently, he is associate professor in Geospatial Information Science

Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia. Dr. Maged Marghany has authored more than 200 reviewed papers and book chapters and had served as a reviewer of several international research journals. He was the main leader for several projects related to the application of microwave remote sensing to Malaysian coastal waters, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Malaysia (MOSTE), and Ministry of High Education, Malaysia (MOHE).

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**


Ana C. Teodoro

Chapter 7 **Remote Sensing of the Ocean Environment Using Finite Element Methods 197**

Saba Mudaliar, C.P. Vendhan and C. Prabavathi

