SAR imaging of ocean surface oil seep trajectories induced by near inertial oscillation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 182-187

  Li, Xiaofeng ^a   Li, Chunyan ^b,c   Yang, Zizang ^a   Pichel, William ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ocean inertial oscillation; Oil slick; SAR

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; BUOY MEASUREMENTS; CIRCULAR TRAJECTORY; CURRENT ANALYSIS; CURRENT VELOCITY; GULF OF MEXICO; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; NEAR-INERTIAL OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN SURFACES; OIL PLATFORMS; OIL SEEPS; OIL SLICKS; OSCILLATION PERIODS; SAR; SAR IMAGES; SAR IMAGING; VELOCITY PROFILES;

DRILLING PLATFORMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BUOY SYSTEM; OIL SEEP; OSCILLATING FLOW; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRAJECTORY; VELOCITY PROFILE; WIND PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84871840438     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.019     Document Type: Article

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