Detection of Floating Oil Anomalies From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill With Synthetic Aperture Radar

Detection of Floating Oil Anomalies From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill With Synthetic Aperture Radar

Detection of oil floating on the ocean surface, and particularly thick layers of it, is crucial for emergency response to oil spills. While detection of oil on the ocean surface is possible under moderate sea-state conditions using a variety of remote-sensing methods, estimation of oil layer thickne...

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Main Authors: Mark Hess, Jan Svejkovsky, Chuanmin Hu, Ian MacDonald, Oscar Garcia-Pineda, Dmitry Dukhovskoy, Steven L. Morey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2013-06-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
synthetic aperture radar
SAR
TCNNA
oil spill
oil slick thickness
Deepwater Horizon
DWH
marine discharge
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-2_garcia-pineda.pdf

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