Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact
Oil spills from offshore drilling and coastal refineries often cause significant degradation of coastal environments. Early oil detection may prevent losses and speed up recovery if monitoring of the initial oil extent, oil impact, and recovery are in place. Satellite imagery data can provide a cost...
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| author | Shruti Khanna Maria J. Santos Susan L. Ustin Kristen Shapiro Paul J. Haverkamp Mui Lay |
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| description | Oil spills from offshore drilling and coastal refineries often cause significant degradation of coastal environments. Early oil detection may prevent losses and speed up recovery if monitoring of the initial oil extent, oil impact, and recovery are in place. Satellite imagery data can provide a cost-effective alternative to expensive airborne imagery or labor intensive field campaigns for monitoring effects of oil spills on wetlands. However, these satellite data may be restricted in their ability to detect and map ecosystem recovery post-spill given their spectral measurement properties and temporal frequency. In this study, we assessed whether spatial and spectral resolution, and other sensor characteristics influence the ability to detect and map vegetation stress and mortality due to oil. We compared how well three satellite multispectral sensors: WorldView2, RapidEye and Landsat EMT+, match the ability of the airborne hyperspectral AVIRIS sensor to map oil-induced vegetation stress, recovery, and mortality after the DeepWater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. We found that finer spatial resolution (3.5 m) provided better delineation of the oil-impacted wetlands and better detection of vegetation stress along oiled shorelines in saltmarsh wetland ecosystems. As spatial resolution become coarser (3.5 m to 30 m) the ability to accurately detect and map stressed vegetation decreased. Spectral resolution did improve the detection and mapping of oil-impacted wetlands but less strongly than spatial resolution, suggesting that broad-band data may be sufficient to detect and map oil-impacted wetlands. AVIRIS narrow-band data performs better detecting vegetation stress, followed by WorldView2, RapidEye and then Landsat 15 m (pan sharpened) data. Higher quality sensor optics and higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) may also improve detection and mapping of oil-impacted wetlands; we found that resampled coarser resolution AVIRIS data with higher SNR performed better than either of the three satellite sensors. The ability to acquire imagery during certain times (midday, low tide, etc.) or a certain date (cloud-free, etc.) is also important in these tidal wetlands; WorldView2 imagery captured at high-tide detected a narrower band of shoreline affected by oil likely because some of the impacted wetland was below the tideline. These results suggest that while multispectral data may be sufficient for detecting the extent of oil-impacted wetlands, high spectral and spatial resolution, high-quality sensor characteristics, and the ability to control time of image acquisition may improve assessment and monitoring of vegetation stress and recovery post oil spills. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3358b133e5da4cf0b377cf3001d045c92022-12-22T02:14:50ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202018-02-0118255810.3390/s18020558s18020558Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill ImpactShruti Khanna0Maria J. Santos1Susan L. Ustin2Kristen Shapiro3Paul J. Haverkamp4Mui Lay5Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, Department of Land Air and Water Resources, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USADepartment of Innovation, Environmental and Energy Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The NetherlandsCenter for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, Department of Land Air and Water Resources, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USACenter for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, Department of Land Air and Water Resources, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USACenter for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, Department of Land Air and Water Resources, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USACenter for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, Department of Land Air and Water Resources, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USAOil spills from offshore drilling and coastal refineries often cause significant degradation of coastal environments. Early oil detection may prevent losses and speed up recovery if monitoring of the initial oil extent, oil impact, and recovery are in place. Satellite imagery data can provide a cost-effective alternative to expensive airborne imagery or labor intensive field campaigns for monitoring effects of oil spills on wetlands. However, these satellite data may be restricted in their ability to detect and map ecosystem recovery post-spill given their spectral measurement properties and temporal frequency. In this study, we assessed whether spatial and spectral resolution, and other sensor characteristics influence the ability to detect and map vegetation stress and mortality due to oil. We compared how well three satellite multispectral sensors: WorldView2, RapidEye and Landsat EMT+, match the ability of the airborne hyperspectral AVIRIS sensor to map oil-induced vegetation stress, recovery, and mortality after the DeepWater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. We found that finer spatial resolution (3.5 m) provided better delineation of the oil-impacted wetlands and better detection of vegetation stress along oiled shorelines in saltmarsh wetland ecosystems. As spatial resolution become coarser (3.5 m to 30 m) the ability to accurately detect and map stressed vegetation decreased. Spectral resolution did improve the detection and mapping of oil-impacted wetlands but less strongly than spatial resolution, suggesting that broad-band data may be sufficient to detect and map oil-impacted wetlands. AVIRIS narrow-band data performs better detecting vegetation stress, followed by WorldView2, RapidEye and then Landsat 15 m (pan sharpened) data. Higher quality sensor optics and higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) may also improve detection and mapping of oil-impacted wetlands; we found that resampled coarser resolution AVIRIS data with higher SNR performed better than either of the three satellite sensors. The ability to acquire imagery during certain times (midday, low tide, etc.) or a certain date (cloud-free, etc.) is also important in these tidal wetlands; WorldView2 imagery captured at high-tide detected a narrower band of shoreline affected by oil likely because some of the impacted wetland was below the tideline. These results suggest that while multispectral data may be sufficient for detecting the extent of oil-impacted wetlands, high spectral and spatial resolution, high-quality sensor characteristics, and the ability to control time of image acquisition may improve assessment and monitoring of vegetation stress and recovery post oil spills.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/2/558vegetation indicesLANDSATWorldView-2RapidEyeAVIRIS |
| spellingShingle | Shruti Khanna Maria J. Santos Susan L. Ustin Kristen Shapiro Paul J. Haverkamp Mui Lay Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact Sensors vegetation indices LANDSAT WorldView-2 RapidEye AVIRIS |
| title | Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact |
| title_full | Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact |
| title_fullStr | Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact |
| title_short | Comparing the Potential of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data for Monitoring Oil Spill Impact |
| title_sort | comparing the potential of multispectral and hyperspectral data for monitoring oil spill impact |
| topic | vegetation indices LANDSAT WorldView-2 RapidEye AVIRIS |
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