Studies of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill With the UAVSAR Radar [PDF]
, 2013 On 22- 23 June 2010, the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) L band radar imaged the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the effects of oil that was transported within the Gulf of Mexico.
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Degradation of Dispersants and Dispersed Oil [PDF]
, 2011 Chemical oil dispersants are proprietary mixtures of surfactants and solvents which are directly applied to a spill in order to reduce the natural attractive forces of the oil. When oil treated with dispersants is exposed to mixing energy, typically from
Lee, Kenneth
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Remote SensingOil spill accidents pose a grave threat to marine ecosystems, human economy, and public health. Consequently, expeditious and efficacious oil spill detection technology is imperative for the pollution mitigation and the health preservation in the marine ...
Jin Xu +8 more
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Pyrolysis of asphaltenes and biomarkers for the fingerprinting of the _Amoco Cadiz_ oil spill after 23 years [PDF]
, 2009 The chemical composition of the petroleum products accidently or deliberately released in the environment varies considerably with time under the action of biological (biodegradation) and physico-chemical (photo-oxidation) processes.
Fré, Jean Oudot
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Potentially Polluting Marine Sites GeoDB: An S-100 Geospatial Database as an Effective Contribution to the Protection of the Marine Environment [PDF]
, 2012 Potentially Polluting Marine Sites (PPMS) are objects on, or areas of, the seabed that may release pollution in the future. A rationale for, and design of, a geospatial database to inventory and manipu-late PPMS is presented.
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Production of semi real time media-GIS contents using MODIS imagery [PDF]
, 2010 [Abstract]: Delivering environmental disaster information, swiftly, attractively, meaningfully, and accurately, to public is becoming a competitive task among spatial data visualizing experts.
Perera, Kithsiri
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingOil spills have devastating impacts on ocean ecosystems, leading to significant economic losses. Consequently, it is crucial to develop effective techniques for the rapid detection of marine oil spills using satellite observations.
Xudong Huang, Biao Zhang, William Perrie
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Development and test of video systems for airborne surveillance of oil spills [PDF]
Five video systems - potentially useful for airborne surveillance of oil spills - were developed, flight tested, and evaluated. The systems are: (1) conventional black and white TV, (2) conventional TV with false color, (3) differential TV, (4) prototype
Arvesen, J. C. +2 more
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2017 State-of-the-Science of Dispersants and Dispersed Oil (DDO) in U.S. Arctic Waters: Efficacy & Effectiveness [PDF]
, 2017 Chemical dispersants were employed on an unprecedented scale during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and could be a response option should a large spill occur in Arctic waters. The use of dispersants in response to that spill raised
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A few-shot oil spill segmentation network guided by multi-scale feature similarity modeling
Frontiers in Marine ScienceSegmentation of oil spills with few-shot samples using UAV optical and SAR images is crucial for enhancing the efficiency of oil spill monitoring. Current oil spill semantic segmentation predominantly relies on SAR images, rendering it relatively data ...
Lingfei Shi +7 more
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