Monitoring oil-spill pollution in the Mediterranean with ERS SAR

Earth Observation Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue , 1996, Pages 8-11

  Pavlakis, P ^a   Sieber, A ^b   Alexandry, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERS; ERS-1; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILL; OIL SPILLS; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SAR; SATELLITE IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0030389969     PISSN: 0256596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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