Synthetic aperture radar sensors: Viable for marine oil spill response?

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

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 299-310

  Brown, Carl E ^a   Fingas, Mervin F ^a   Hawkins, Robert ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE RADAR; OIL SPILLS; PERSONNEL; RADAR IMAGING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WIND;

CASE-STUDIES; FALSE TARGETS; MARINE OIL SPILLS; SPACE-BORNE SAR SENSORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPILL RESPONSE; TECHNICAL SEMINARS; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 3543121861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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