Remote sensing of ocean oil-spill pollution

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2931-2945

  Solberg, Anne H Schistad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Oil spill detection; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURFACE WATERS;

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; AIRCRAFT SURVEILLANCE; CO-POLARIZED PHASE DIFFERENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; OIL SPILL DETECTION; POLARIMETRIC ENTROPY; REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84866564197     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2196250     Document Type: Article

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