Locating a sunken vessel using SAR imagery: Detection of oil spilled from the SS Jacob Luckenbach

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2233-2241

  Simecek Beatty, D ^a   Clemente Colon P ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED WELLS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NATURAL FEATURES; OIL POLLUTION; OIL SLICKS; OIL SOURCES; RADARSAT-1 SAR; SAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

AVES;

EID: 77955231256     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160310001647732     Document Type: Article

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