Analysis of remote sensing data collected for detection and mapping of oil spills: Reduction and analysis of multi-sensor airborne data of the NASA Wallops oil spill exercise of November 1978. interim; Final Report

Technical Report · Sat May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6307137

Airborne, remotely sensed data of the NASA Wallops controlled oil spill were corrected, reduced and analysed. Sensor performance comparisons were made by registering data sets from different sensors, which were near-coincident in time and location. Multispectral scanner images were, in turn, overlayed with profiles of correlation between airborne and laboratory-acquired fluorosensor spectra of oil, oil-thickness contours derived (by NASA) from a scanning fluorosensor and also from a two-channel scanning microwave radiometer, and synthetic aperture radar X-HH images. Microwave scatterometer data were correlated with dual-channel (UV and TIR) line scanner images of the oil slick.

• Research Organization: INTERA Environmental Consultants Ltd., Ottawa (Ontario)
• OSTI ID: 6307137
• Report Number(s): N-8233891; NASA-CR-165886
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

520200* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
DATA PROCESSING
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY
FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY
IMAGE PROCESSING
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MICROWAVE RADIATION
MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS
NASA
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
OIL SPILLS
PROCESSING
RADAR
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATIONS
RADIOMETERS
RANGE FINDERS
REMOTE SENSING
SPECTROSCOPY
SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR
US ORGANIZATIONS