Analysis of oceanic features from dual-polarization high resolution X-band SAR imagery for oil spill detection purposes

Author

Velotto, Domenico ; Lehner, Susanne ; Soloviev, Alexander ; Maingot, Chris

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Inst. -SAR Oceanogr. (MF-GW), German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

2841

Lastpage

2844

Abstract

Most part of the sea oil pollution is caused by unintentional and intentional discharges from ships and offshore platforms. Being a serious threat of the marine ecosystem, tools that offer wide area coverage and 24h/day monitoring capabilities are needed. In this way, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has become an operational instrument to contrast deliberate oil releases and to monitor areas affected by oil accident.

Keywords

ecology; geophysical image processing; industrial pollution; oceanographic techniques; offshore installations; oil pollution; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; seawater; synthetic aperture radar; underwater optics; dual polarization high resolution X-band SAR imagery; marine ecosystem; oceanic features; offshore platforms; oil accident; oil spill detection; ships; synthetic aperture radar; Marine vehicles; Pollution measurement; Remote sensing; Scattering; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; TerraSAR-X; biogenic slicks; dual-pol Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data; oil slick; oil spill; ship wakes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350840

Filename

6350840