Oil spill detection by satellite remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Brekke, Camilla ^a,b   Solberg, Anne H S ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Automatic algorithms; Classification; Dark spot detection; Detectability; Feature extraction; Manual detection; Oil spill; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SENSORS;

OIL SLICKS; OIL SPILL DETECTION; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSORS;

OIL SPILLS;

DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OIL SPILL; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 13844255632     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.11.015     Document Type: Review

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