Detection of natural oil slicks in the NW Gulf of Mexico using MODIS imagery

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hu, Chuanmin ^a   Li, Xiaofeng ^b   Pichel, William G ^b   Muller Karger, Frank E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUN; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

GLOBAL APPLICATIONS; GULF OF MEXICO; MODIS IMAGERIES; NATURAL SEEPS; OIL SLICKS; OPEN OCEANS; SAR IMAGERIES; SAR IMAGES; SEEPAGE RATES; SINGLE IMAGES; SUN GLINTS; SURFACE AREAS; WATER DEPTHS;

SPECTROMETERS;

DETECTION METHOD; IMAGERY; MODIS; OIL; OPEN OCEAN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 62749158655     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036119     Document Type: Article

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