Application of airborne radar data with different wavelength for oil pollution detection
- Institute of Remote Sensing Methods for Geology (VNIKAM), St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
The evaluation of effectiveness of airborne radar data with different wavelength (centimeter and meter bands) for oil pollution detection was carried out on the test site at Komi Republic where was an accident on oil pipeline in October, 1994. The technology of data processing and interpretation includes: creation of Data Base containing airborne radar, other airborne and satellite data before accident and after, different landscape information about topography, distribution of drainage, marshes and forest transformed to certain map projection; special processing of radar images with different wavelength to extract the places of possible oil pollution; integrated analysis of data-creation of final scheme of oil pollution. The results of research have allowed to make a conclusion that airborne radar has some advantages in comparison with airborne and satellite data in visible and near infrared bands because it permits to obtain information for ecological monitoring of oil fields and oil pipeline at the areas with strong clouds and snow cover. The long wave radar (meter band) is particularly promising to extract the information about the state of the soils and man-made objects under the snow cover and it may be a new tool for environmental investigation.
- OSTI ID:
- 263423
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960203-; TRN: 96:002807-0006
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 11. thematic conference on geologic remote sensing, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 27-29 Feb 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the eleventh thematic conference - geologic remote sensing: Practical solutions for real world problems. Volume 2; PB: 730 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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