Oil spill remote sensing: Laser fluorosensor demonstration flights off the East Coast of Canada

Environment Canada Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar (AMOP) Proceedings

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 317-334

  Brown, Carl E ^a   Fingas, Mervin F ^a   Marois, Richard ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; REMOTE SENSING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

EDMONTON , ALBERTA; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LOW PROBABILITY; MARINE OIL SPILLS; OCEAN GOING VESSELS; SCANNING LASERS; TECHNICAL SEMINARS; WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS;

PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

EID: 11244261432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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