XXII ISPRS Congress 2012: Technical Commission VII

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Title:: XXII ISPRS Congress 2012

Sub title:: Melbourne, Australia, 25 August-1 September 2012

Year of publication:: 2013

Place of publication:: Red Hook, NY

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Additional Notes:: Kongress-Thema: Imaging a sustainable future

Corporations:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 22., 2012, Melbourne; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Title:: Technical Commission VII

Scope:: 546 Seiten

Year of publication:: 2013

Place of publication:: Red Hook, NY

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Corporations:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 22., 2012, Melbourne; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2019

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Title:: AUTOMATIC CALCULATION OF OIL SLICK AREA FROM MULTIPLE SAR ACQUISITIONS FOR DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL Batuhan Osmanoglu, Coskun Özkan, Filiz Sunar, Gordon Staples

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2012 , Chengdu, 993. The d by rader ;.P., Wang, ; and land ology and [.M., 2005. layers in se Journal elation in Geoscience Ib. On the differential phys. Res, idence and of Tongji and land he Chinese 1-4. orithms for date and its eying and d by 973 al Natural 41074005, he Central U11ZT13, 0.112130). 1nance and International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XXXIX-B7, 2012 XXII ISPRS Congress, 25 August — 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia AUTOMATIC CALCULATION OF OIL SLICK AREA FROM MULTIPLE SAR ACQUISITIONS FOR DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL Batuhan Osmanoëlu!, Coskun Ozkan?, Filiz Sunar?, Gordon Staples* University of Alaska - Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775, batu@gi.alaska.edu ?Erciyes University, Engineering Faculty, Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering Dept., 38039 Kayseri,Turkey, cozkan@erciyes.edu.tr ?Istanbul Technical University, Civil Engineering Faculty, Geomatics Engineering Dept., 34469 Maslak Istanbul, Turkey, fsunar(a/itu.edu.tr 4 MDA, 13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, V7S 1L5, Canada, gstaples@mdacorporation.com Commission VII, WG VII/2 KEY WORDS: Marine pollution, Oil spill detection, Probability map, SAR ABSTRACT: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 and became the largest accidental marine oil spill in history. Oil leaked continuously between April 20th and July 15th of 2010, releasing about 780, 000m? of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill caused extensive economical and ecological damage to the areas it reached, affecting the marine and wildlife habitats along with fishing and tourism industries. For oil spill mitigation efforts, it is important to determine the areal extent, and most recent position of the contaminated area. Satellite- based oil pollution monitoring systems are being used for monitoring and in hazard response efforts. Due to their high accuracy, frequent acquisitions, large area coverage and day-and-night operation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites are a major contributer of monitoring marine environments for oil spill detection. We developed a new algorithm for determining the extent of the oil spill from multiple SAR images, that are acquired with short temporal intervals using different sensors. Combining the multi-polarization data from Radarsat-2 (C-band), Envisat ASAR (C-band) and Alos-PALSAR (L-band) sensors, we calculate the extent of the oil spill with higher accuracy than what is possible from only one image. Short temporal interval between acquisitions (hours to days) allow us to eliminate artifacts and increase accuracy. Our algorithm works automatically without any human intervention to deliver products in a timely manner in time critical operations. Acquisitions using different SAR sensors are radiometrically calibrated and processed individually to obtain oil spill area extent. Furthermore the algorithm provides probability maps of the areas that are classified as oil slick. This probability information is then combined with other acquisitions to estimate the combined probability map for the spill. 1 INTRODUCTION remote sensing sensors, as well as field observations can be com- bined, and statistically provide an outcome better than any indi- Marine oil spills are a common threat to all sea bordering coun- vidual resource. tries. The environmental and related economical losses due to an oil spill can be large, and many methods have been developed to monitor oceans in operational conditions. In most cases it is critical to respond to spills in a timely manner, and therefore it is important for such operational systems to provide results in near real time. Once a spill is detected, its behavior can be modeled based on physical models. In this paper we develop a fully automatic oil spill monitoring systems that is capable of combining data from multiple SAR sources. The focus of this paper is on radar imagery, however the algorithm can be then be expanded to optical imagery and ground measurements as discussed later. A brief background on the technical aspects is provided in Section 2. Results obtained from SAR data over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are discussed i ; 5 ; in Section 3. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems provide a viable option m SION of oil slick monitoring. SAR intensity images are sensitive to surface roughness which is altered in the case of an oil spill. The 2 BACKGROUND scattering of oil-free ocean surface is dominated by Bragg scat- tering (Bragg, 1913). A thin oil sheen covering the ocean will ^ Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery is sensitive to surface rough- reduce the ocean-atmosphere interaction, and alter the smooth- ^ ness which is altered in case of an oil spill (Alpers and Hühnerfuss, ness of the surface. Therefore, oil slicks appear slightly darker in 1988). Oil slicks change the smoothness of ocean surface and moderate wind conditions in SAR imagery. SAR systems have appear darker compared to surrounding oil free ocean, however an ideal range of wind speed and direction where they are most the amount of damping is affected with wind and wave condi- sensitive, and do not perform well for oil spill detection under tions. Furthermore the speckle effect in SAR imagery limits the very windy or very calm conditions. reliability of point measurements in the image, causing spurious results (Brekke and Solberg, 2005). In our approach we apply a There are of course other methods to monitor oceans and detect multiple step processing to limit the adverse effects of speckle, oil spills, such as optical and infra-red remote sensing, and hy- instead of filtering the data with a speckle filter. perspectral imaging (Brekke and Solberg, 2005). No matter how complex or advanced a method is single-handedly all have dif- There are many methods developed to detect oil spills from SAR ferent levels of uncertainties. Therefore it is important to com- intensity images: (1) machine learning and neural-network recog- bine many observations complementing each other's weaknesses nition (Kubat et al., 1998, Ozkan and Sunar, 2007), (2) frequency providing the best possible information. Results from different spectrum attenuation (Lombardini et al., 1989, Gade et al., 1998, 63

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