Elimination of oil spill like structures from radar image using MODIS data

Author

Sipelgas, Liis ; Uiboupin, Rivo

Author_Institution

Tallinn Univ. of Technol., Tallinn

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

429

Lastpage

431

Abstract

Oil-spill detection from radar imagery is complicated task in Estonian coastal sea where look-alikes caused by ice, upwelling events, cyanobacterial blooms may occur. We compared SAR image with the MODIS optical imagery and look-alikes caused by upwelling event and cyanobacterial bloom were detected from images of August 7, 2007. Analysis of MODIS imagery from years 2000-2006 showed that during the ice free period upwellings occur frequently in the Gulf of Finland and they are strongest during summertime stratification period. Cyanobacterial blooms occurred in July and August in Estonian coastal sea. Some ice cover is present in Estonian coastal sea every winter.

Keywords

marine pollution; oceanographic techniques; oceanography; oil pollution; pollution measurement; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2000 to 2006; AD 2007 08 07; Estonian coastal sea; Gulf of Finland; MODIS data; MODIS optical imagery; SAR image; cyanobacterial blooms; ice; oil spill like structure elimination; oil-spill detection; radar imagery; summertime stratification period; upwelling event; Ice; MODIS; Ocean temperature; Petroleum; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Wind speed; Baltic Sea; MODIS; SAR; oil-spill look-alikes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422822

Filename

4422822