NOAA's Satellite Monitoring of Marine Oil

Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record Breaking Enterprise

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 9-18

  Streett, Davida ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon; Oil monitoring; Oil spill; Remote sensing; Satellite; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); DATA HANDLING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MANAGERS; NASA; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL BOOMS; OIL SPILLS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; DEEPWATER HORIZONS; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; MACDONALD DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OIL MONITORING;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 84906231972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001104     Document Type: Chapter

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