scholarly journals Segmentation of Oil Spills on Side-Looking Airborne Radar Imagery with Autoencoders

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio-Javier Gallego ◽  
Pablo Gil ◽  
Antonio Pertusa ◽  
Robert Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spills ◽  
Airborne Radar ◽  
Radar Imagery

The Application of RADARSAT-2 Quad-Polarized Data for Oil Slick Characterization

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 2242-2252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Staples ◽  
Ridha Touzi
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Radar Data ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Scattering Mechanisms ◽  
Oil Slick ◽  
Radar Imagery ◽  
Qualitative Measure

ABSTRACT Spaceborne radar data has been extensively used to monitor numerous oil spills worldwide. The radar imagery provides information on the spatial extent of the oil, but in general, there is limited information on the characteristics of the oil such as the discrimination of sheen from emulsion. The full polarimetry capabilities of RADARSAT-2 were investigated in this study using acquisitions collected over the Gulf of Mexico. In this study, the Cloude-Pottier target decomposition algorithm was used to extract polarimetric information from RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized images acquired over the Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Cloude-Pottier entropy (H) provides a measure of the amount of mixing between scattering mechanisms. For a wind-roughened ocean surface, the scattering is dominated by a single dominant scattering mechanism, namely Bragg scattering (H → 0). In the presence of an oil slick, however, the entropy increases (H → 1) which is due to the number independent scattering mechanisms increasing due to damping of the small-scale Bragg waves. Comparison of entropy with the over flight observations indicated that the variability of the entropy was consistent with the variability of the oil properties suggesting that the entropy was providing a qualitative measure of the oil characteristics. Specifically, when there was open water and a thin sheen, the entropy was close to 0, but in the presence thicker oil due to the presence of, for example, an emulsion, the entropy had values that were close to 1.

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