Title :
Preliminary results of Cosmo-SkyMed announcement of opportunity projects about marine monitoring
Author :
Nirchio, F. ; Berizzi, F. ; Del Frate, F. ; Freni, A. ; Migliaccio, M. ; Palazzo, F. ; Zecchetto, S.
Author_Institution :
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Italy
Abstract :
In the paper are presented some of the main outcomes of the projects, relevant to marine monitoring, developed in the framework of the first Announcement of Opportunity Cosmo-SkyMed. The principal subjects covered are: ship detection, oil spill monitoring, wind retrieval, sea surface currents estimation and coastline extraction.
Keywords :
geophysical image processing; oil pollution; wind; Announcement of Opportunity Cosmo-SkyMed; coastline extraction; marine monitoring; oil spill monitoring; opportunity projects; sea surface current estimation; ship detection; wind retrieval; Image resolution; Marine vehicles; Monitoring; Object oriented modeling; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; Cosmo-SkyMed; Marine Applications; SAR;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352356
