Oil spill detection by SAR images: Dark formation detection, feature extraction and classification algorithms

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 6642-6659

  Topouzelis, Konstantinos N ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Oil spill; SAR; Sea pollution

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC APPROACHES; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION; ILLEGAL DISCHARGES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OIL SPILL DETECTION; POLLUTANT DISCHARGES; SAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

ECOSYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OIL SPILLS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER QUALITY;

MARINE POLLUTION;

EID: 55249117307     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8106642     Document Type: Review

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