SAR polarimetry to observe oil spills

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 506-511

  Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a,b   Gambardella, Attilio ^a,c   Tranfaglia, Massimo ^d  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d SERCO ASSURANCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Oil spill; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DARK PATCHES DETECTION; RADAR POLARIMETRY; TARGET DECOMPOSITION THEOREM;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEOREM PROVING;

OIL SPILLS;

EID: 33846622389     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.888097     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. C. Brekke and A. H. S. Solberg, "Oil spill detection by satellite remote sensing," Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 1-13, Mar. 2005.
2. H. A. Espedal and T. Wahl, "Satellite SAR oil spill detection using wind history information," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 49-65, Jan. 1999.
3. M. Migliaccio, M. Tranfaglia, and S. A. Ermakov, "A physical approach for the observation of oil spills in SAR images," IEEE J. Ocean. Eng., vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 496-507, Jul. 2005.
4. M. Gade, W. Alpers, H. Huhnerfuss, H. Masuko, and T. Kobayashi, "Imaging of biogenic and anthropogenic ocean surface films by the multifrequency/multipolarization SIR-C/X-SAR," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 103, no. C9, pp. 18 851-18 866, Aug. 1998.
5. J. Fortuny-Guasch, "Improved oil slick detection and classification with polarimetric SAR," in Proc. POLinSAR, Jan. 14-16, 2003, p. 27.1.
6. P. Lombardo and C. J. Oliver, "Optimum detection and segmentation of oil-slicks with polarimetric SAR data," in Proc. Rec. IEEE Int. Radar Conf., May. 7-12, 2000, pp. 122-127.
7. S. R. Cloude and E. Pottier, "A review of target decomposition theorems in radar polarimetry," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 498-518, Mar. 1996.
8. D. Schuler, J.-S. Lee, and G. De Grandi, "Spiral eddy detection using surfactant slick patterns and polarimetric decomposition techniques," in Proc. IGARSS, Anchorage, AK, Sep. 20-24, 2004, vol. 1, pp. 215-217.
9. D. L. Schuler and J. S. Lee, "Mapping ocean surface features using biogenic slick-fields and polarimetric decomposition techniques," Proc. Inst. Electr. Eng. - Radar, Sonar Navig., vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 260-270, Jun. 2006.
10. J. Schou, H. Skriver, K. Conradsen, and A. Nielsen, "CFAR edge detector for polarimetric SAR images," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 34, no. 1,pp. 20-32, Jan. 2003.
11. I. Hajnsek, E. Pottier, and S. R. Cloude, "Inversion of surface parameters from polarimetric SAR," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 727-744, Apr. 2003.
12. J. Horstmann, H. Schiller, J. Schulz-Stellenfleth, and S. Lehner, "Global wind speed retrieval from SAR," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 2277-2286, Oct. 2003.
13. R. Touzi, A. Lopès, and P. Bousquet, "A statistical and geometrical edge detector for SAR images," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 764-773, Nov. 1988.