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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Oceans 2005 - Europe
Conference_Location :
Brest, France
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9103-9
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511709
