Application of TerraSAR-X data for emergent oil-spill monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 852-863

  Kim, Duk Jin ^a   Moon, Wooil M ^a,b   Kim, Youn Soo ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Damping ratio; Emergency response; Hebei Spirit; Oil spills; TerraSAR X; X band synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLOUD COVER; DAMPING RATIO; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS; ENVISAT; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA; NEAR-REAL TIME; NOISE LEVELS; RADARSAT 1; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; SAR SYSTEM; TECHNICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; TERRASAR-X; VARYING TIME DELAY; VISIBLE SPECTRA; VOLCANIC DUST; WAVE NUMBERS; WEST COAST; WIND SPEED; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

DAMPING; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OIL SPILLS; RADAR; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLOUD COVER; DAMPING; HAZARD; NOISE; OIL SPILL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HEBEI; KOREA;

EID: 76349085400     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2036253     Document Type: Article

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