Use of air-deployed drogued drifting buoys for oil spill tracking

MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sharma, Neha ^a   Brickley, Peter ^a   Owen, George ^a   Coholan, Patrice ^a  

^a HORIZON MARINE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EXPLOSION; CURRENT MONITORING; DEEPWATER; DIFFERENT SCALE; DISPERSANTS; DRIFTING BUOYS; GPS RECEIVERS; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH LOAD; LOOP CURRENT; MIXED LAYER; NEW POSITION; OIL PARTICLES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SPILL RESPONSE; SURFACE WINDS; TRANSPORT PATHWAYS; UPPER WATER COLUMN; WAVE ACTIONS;

BUOYS; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MARINE POLLUTION; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; OIL SPILLS; OIL WELLS;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

EID: 78651280829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5663921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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