SAR observation and model tracking of an oil spill event in coastal waters

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 350-363

  Cheng, Yongcun ^a   Li, Xiaofeng ^b   Xu, Qing ^c,d   Garcia Pineda, Oscar ^e   Andersen, Ole Baltazar ^a   Pichel, William G ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GNOME; Oil spill; SAR; Simulation; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; COASTAL WATERS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVISAT ASAR; GNOME; GULF OF MEXICO; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MARINE OIL; MODEL TRACKING; NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTERS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NAVY COASTAL OCEAN MODELS; NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM; OIL SLICKS; OIL SPILL TRAJECTORY; OPERATIONAL MODELING; PHASED ARRAYS; SAR; SIMULATED TRAJECTORIES; SIMULATION; SURFACE WINDS; SYNCHRONOUS OBSERVATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL SPILLS; POLLUTION; RADAR; SPACECRAFT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRAJECTORIES;

MARINE POLLUTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COASTAL WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OIL SPILL RESPONSE; SURFACE WIND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COASTAL WATERS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MEXICO; OIL SPILL; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL HAZARD RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PETROLEUM; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 79751531400     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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