Studies of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill With the UAVSAR Radar

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 33-50

  Jones, Cathleen E ^a   Minchew, Brent ^b   Holt, Benjamin ^a   Hensley, Scott ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Louisiana wetland ecosystem; Mineral oil slicks; POLSAR; Radar remote sensing; UAVSAR

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; ANTENNAS; ECOSYSTEMS; INTRUSION DETECTION; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WETLANDS;

DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILLS; POLSAR; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; UAVSAR; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM;

OIL BOOMS;

EID: 84951791256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001113     Document Type: Chapter

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