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Detection and Classification of Land Crude Oil Spills Using Color Segmentation and Texture Analysis

Journal of Imaging, 2017
Crude oil spills have negative consequences on the economy, environment, health and society in which they occur, and the severity of the consequences depends on how quickly these spills are detected once they begin. Several methods have been employed for
O’tega Ejofodomi, Godswill Ofualagba
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Assessing Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems in the characterization of rocky shores for oil spills environmental sensitivity mapping, northern São Paulo littoral, Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022
The Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) for oil spills was developed to assist coordinators to evaluate oil spill impact along shorelines and also to coordinate the allocation of resources during and after the incident, aiming to reduce environmental ...
RODRIGO I. CERRI, FLÁVIO H. RODRIGUES, GABRIEL H.S. DE OLIVEIRA, FÁBIO A.G.V. REIS, ARTHUR WIECZOREK, GEORGE A. LONGHITANO, DÉBORA M. DUARTE   +6 more
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Oil spill detection using optical sensors: a multi-temporal approach [PDF]

, 2018
Oil pollution is one of the most destructive consequences due to human activities in the marine environment. Oil wastes come from many sources and take decades to be disposed of.
Laneve, Giovanni, Luciani, Roberto
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Oil Pollution in the Southeastern Baltic Sea by Satellite Remote Sensing Data in 2004-2015

Transport and Telecommunication, 2016
The results of satellite monitoring of oil pollution in the Southeastern Baltic Sea in 2004-2015 are discussed in the paper. Interannual and seasonal variability of oil pollution is investigated. A steady decrease in total oil pollution was observed from
Bulycheva Elena V., Krek Aleksander V., Kostianoy Andrey G., Semenov Aleksander V., Joksimovich Aleksandar   +4 more
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Optimization on emergency materials dispatching considering the characteristics of integrated emergency response for large-scale marine oil spills [PDF]

, 2019
Many governments have been strengthening the construction of hardware facilities and equipment to prevent and control marine oil spills. However, in order to deal with large-scale marine oil spills more efficiently, emergency materials dispatching ...
Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel, Feng, Hongxiang, Grifoll Colls, Manel, Li, Song, Zheng, Pengjun   +4 more
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New problems and opportunities of oil spill monitoring systems [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2015
Emergency oil and oil products spills represent a great danger to the environment, including ecosystems, and to the population. New problems of such dangerous spills and methods of early detection are discussed in this paper.
G. M. Barenboim, V. M. Borisov, V. N. Golosov, A. Yu. Saveca   +3 more
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The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 [PDF]

, 1990
In response to several major oil spills, including the Exxon Valdez incident in 1989, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) was signed into law. The author reviews responses to various oil spills, and the inadequacy of legislation applicable to such ...
Edelman, Paul S.
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Semi-Automatic Oil Spill Detection on X-Band Marine Radar Images Using Texture Analysis, Machine Learning, and Adaptive Thresholding

Remote Sensing, 2019
Oil spills bring great damage to the environment and, in particular, to coastal ecosystems. The ability of identifying them accurately is important to prompt oil spill response.
Peng Liu, Ying Li, Bingxin Liu, Peng Chen, Jin Xu   +4 more
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A Novel Approach in Oil Spill Detection, Identification, and Classification via Multisource Technologies and Artificial Intelligence [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
The Mediterranean Sea has a substantial volume of maritime traffic, including many tankers ferrying oil from eastern sources to western refineries. This critical maritime front, vital for trade and connectivity, also poses a significant risk of oil ...
T. Avikasis Cohen, D. Angel, A. Brook
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Environmental Impacts and Challenges Associated with Oil Spills on Shorelines

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
Oil spills are of great concern because they impose a threat to the marine ecosystem, including shorelines. As oil spilled at sea is transported to the shoreline, and after its arrival, its behavior and physicochemical characteristics change because of ...
Zunaira Asif, Zhi Chen, Chunjiang An, Jinxin Dong   +3 more
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