Remote measurement of oil spill thickness
Conference
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OSTI ID:478148
Lincoln Laboratory, under contract with the Minerals Management Service, has constructed a wide-band, millimeter wave radiometer for the determination of oil-spill thickness. The system simultaneously measures brightness temperature at twelve frequencies in the Ka band using a single antenna and receiver. It has reduced data-acquisition time to two tenths of a second compared to the fourteen seconds required for the earlier frequency-scanning radiometer. This improvement enables us to measure oil thickness in the presence of waves and light chop. In this paper we describe how radiometry is used to determine oil spill thickness, the components of the new system, and the results from field tests performed at the OHMSETT facility in September of 1996.
- OSTI ID:
- 478148
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970319--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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