• DocumentCode
    2666147
  • Title

    Integrated satellite tracking of pollution: A new operational program

  • Author

    Gauthier, Marie-France ; Weir, Laurie ; Ou, Ziqiang ; Arkett, Matt ; De Abreu, Roger

  • Author_Institution
    Meteorological Service of Canada, Ottawa
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    23-28 July 2007
  • Firstpage
    967
  • Lastpage
    970
  • Abstract
    The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) new operational program ISTOP (Integrated Satellite Tracking Of Pollution) is designed to effectively use SAR satellite imagery from Canada´s Radarsat-1 as an aid in marine oil spill detection.
  • Keywords
    marine pollution; oceanographic techniques; oil pollution; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Canadian Ice Service; ISTOP program; Radarsat-1; SAR satellite imagery; marine oil spill detection; pollution tracking; satellite tracking; Aircraft; Birds; Computational Intelligence Society; Ice; Oil pollution; Petroleum; Radar tracking; Satellites; Surveillance; Water pollution;
  • 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.2007.4422960
  • Filename
    4422960