Monitoring of oil spill trajectories with COSMO-skymed X-band SAR images and model simulation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2895-2901

  Cheng, Yongcun ^a   Liu, Bingqing ^b   Li, Xiaofeng ^c   Nunziata, Ferdinando ^d   Xu, Qing ^e   Ding, Xianwen ^b   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^d   Pichel, William G ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^e HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment (GNOME); North Sea; oil spill; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); trajectory

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OIL SHALE; OIL SPILLS; TRAJECTORIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; NAVY COASTAL OCEAN MODELS; NORTH SEA; OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; OIL SPILL TRAJECTORY; OPERATIONAL MODEL; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84906949257     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2341574     Document Type: Article

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