An assessment of oil spill detection using Sentinel 1 SAR-C images

Identification of an oil spill is additionally essential to evaluate the potential spread and float from the source to the adjacent coastal terrains. In such manner, usage of Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) information for the recognition and checking of oil spills has gotten extensive consideration...

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Main Authors: Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi, Saikat Banerjee, Shashank Lele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468013319301494
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Saikat Banerjee
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description Identification of an oil spill is additionally essential to evaluate the potential spread and float from the source to the adjacent coastal terrains. In such manner, usage of Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) information for the recognition and checking of oil spills has gotten extensive consideration as of late, because of their wide zone inclusion, day-night and all-weather capabilities. The present examination studies an oil spill occurred in the Al Khafji region by applying Sentinel 1 SAR-C images. Al Khafji is on the borderline between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the Persian Gulf and it is detected as an unbiased zone. Al Khafji region can possibly deliver in excess of 7472.403 m³ barrels of oil for every day (m³/d). Approaches dependent on multi-sensor satellite images examination have been produced for distinguishing oil spills from referred to common leaks just as oil slick procedures. In this paper, one of these techniques is associated with Sentinel 1 images of a known region of natural oil leakage and of an ongoing oil slick incident in Al Khafji zone. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is perceived as the most significant remote sensing apparatus for the ocean and ocean waters oil slick examination, recording, documentation and propagation. Specifically, this paper examines oil spills recognition in the Persian Gulf surveyed by utilizing Sentinel-1 (SAR-C) imageries. Results demonstrated the significance of the VV polarization of the Sentinel-1 for recognizing oil-spills just as the diminished utility of the VH polarization in this sole circumstance.
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spelling doaj.art-5aa8c9be82fd45759dd3bbace058c08d2022-12-22T02:47:43ZengElsevierJournal of Ocean Engineering and Science2468-01332020-06-0152116135An assessment of oil spill detection using Sentinel 1 SAR-C imagesSudhir Kumar Chaturvedi0Saikat Banerjee1Shashank Lele2Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, IndiaWingbotics, Kolkata 700086, West Bengal, India; Corresponding author.Metric Global, Pune 411036, IndiaIdentification of an oil spill is additionally essential to evaluate the potential spread and float from the source to the adjacent coastal terrains. In such manner, usage of Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) information for the recognition and checking of oil spills has gotten extensive consideration as of late, because of their wide zone inclusion, day-night and all-weather capabilities. The present examination studies an oil spill occurred in the Al Khafji region by applying Sentinel 1 SAR-C images. Al Khafji is on the borderline between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the Persian Gulf and it is detected as an unbiased zone. Al Khafji region can possibly deliver in excess of 7472.403 m³ barrels of oil for every day (m³/d). Approaches dependent on multi-sensor satellite images examination have been produced for distinguishing oil spills from referred to common leaks just as oil slick procedures. In this paper, one of these techniques is associated with Sentinel 1 images of a known region of natural oil leakage and of an ongoing oil slick incident in Al Khafji zone. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is perceived as the most significant remote sensing apparatus for the ocean and ocean waters oil slick examination, recording, documentation and propagation. Specifically, this paper examines oil spills recognition in the Persian Gulf surveyed by utilizing Sentinel-1 (SAR-C) imageries. Results demonstrated the significance of the VV polarization of the Sentinel-1 for recognizing oil-spills just as the diminished utility of the VH polarization in this sole circumstance.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468013319301494Sentinel-1Oil-spillSAROcean PollPolarimetryPhase
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title An assessment of oil spill detection using Sentinel 1 SAR-C images
title_full An assessment of oil spill detection using Sentinel 1 SAR-C images
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title_short An assessment of oil spill detection using Sentinel 1 SAR-C images
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SAR
Ocean Poll
Polarimetry
Phase
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