Title :
Identification of oil spills based on ratio of alternating polarization images from ENVISAT
Author :
Malinovsky, Vladimir V. ; Sandven, Stein ; Mironov, Alexey S. ; Korinenko, Aleksander E.
Author_Institution :
Marine Hydrophysical Inst., Sevastopol
Abstract :
We propose here a method to identify surface film in SAR images using the Alternating Polarization ratio images from ENVISAT. This ratio is lower in polluted areas than in non-polluted areas due to the difference in relative contributions of the non-Bragg scattering to the total radar signal.
Keywords :
oceanographic techniques; synthetic aperture radar; ENVISAT data; SAR images; alternating polarization ratio images; nonBragg scattering; oil spills identification; surface film; Backscatter; Petroleum; Polarization; Radar cross section; Radar imaging; Radar scattering; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar; Surface contamination; Surface waves; normalized radar cross-section; oil spills; polarization; sea surface; wave breaking;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423050
