A physical approach for the observation of oil spills in SAR images

In this paper, a physical approach to support oil spills observation over synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is presented. Electromagnetic model is based on an enhanced damping model that takes into account oil viscoelastic properties and wind speed. As a matter of fact, a multisensor approach is...

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Published inIEEE journal of oceanic engineering Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 496 - 507
Main Authors Migliaccio, M., Tranfaglia, M., Ermakov, S.A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.07.2005
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Backscattering model
Damping
edge detector
Elasticity
Electromagnetic modeling
Filters
Lubricating oils
oil spills
Petroleum
SAR
scatterometer
Speckle
Synthetic aperture radar
Viscosity
Wind speed
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Summary:In this paper, a physical approach to support oil spills observation over synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is presented. Electromagnetic model is based on an enhanced damping model that takes into account oil viscoelastic properties and wind speed. As a matter of fact, a multisensor approach is considered and a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) filter is used to minimize speckle effect. A set of experiments is presented and discussed. They show that oil spill processing is effective over single-look SAR images using mean input data.
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ISSN:0364-9059
1558-1691
DOI:10.1109/JOE.2005.857518