Title :
Marine pollution in European coastal waters monitored by the ERS-2 SAR: a comprehensive statistical analysis
Author :
Gade, Martin ; Redondo, José Manuel
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Meereskunde, Hamburg Univ., Germany
Abstract :
The oil pollution of the southern Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and the northwestern Mediterranean Sea has been studied within a two-year period from December 1996 until November 1998. In total, the authors have analyzed more than 700 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which have been acquired over the three test areas by the Second European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-2). The authors present the results of their statistical analyses. Moreover, the authors introduce advanced image processing techniques for the classification of the observed radar signatures, namely the calculation of the fractal dimension, and discuss the possibility of identifying different types of oceanic phenomena
Keywords :
remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; water pollution measurement; AD 1996 12 to 1998 11; ERS-2 SAR; European coastal waters; NW Mediterranean Sea; North Sea; S Baltic Sea; SAR images; Second European Remote Sensing Satellite; classification; fractal dimension; image processing techniques; marine pollution; oceanic phenomena; oil pollution; radar signatures; statistical analysis; synthetic aperture radar; Image analysis; Marine pollution; Monitoring; Oil pollution; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sea measurements; Synthetic aperture radar; Testing; Water pollution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774635
