DocumentCode
2066879
Title
A study on the use of SAR polarimetric data to observe oil spills
Author
Migliaccio, M. ; Tranfaglia, M.
Author_Institution
Dipartimento per le Tecnologie, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
Volume
1
fYear
2005
fDate
20-23 June 2005
Firstpage
196
Abstract
In this paper a new procedure to discriminate different surface films by means of SAR polarimetric data is proposed. SAR data were acquired on October 11, 1994 during SIR-C/X-SAR mission, named SRL-2. The dark features characterizing different surface films are analysed using eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the coherence matrix. Results of this study give rise to the conclusions that SAR polarimetric data are a key tool to discriminate oil spills from biogenic/anthropogenic surface films to reduce the number of false alarms.
Keywords
data acquisition; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; marine pollution; oil pollution; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; AD 1994 10 11; SAR polarimetric data; SIR-C/X-SAR mission; SRL-2; anthropogenic surface films; biogenic surface films; coherence matrix; eigenvalues; eigenvectors; oil spills; synthetic aperture radar; Marine pollution; Oil pollution; Petroleum; Pollution measurement; Remote monitoring; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Surface contamination; Synthetic aperture radar;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Oceans 2005 - Europe
Conference_Location
Brest, France
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9103-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511709
Filename
1511709
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