Insight into Offshore Oil Drift Monitoring Through Combination of Sequential Sentinel-1 Ascending and Descending Images

Auteurs

La T.V., Pelich R.M., Chini M., Li Y., Matgen P.

Référence

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), vol. 2023-July, pp. 1857-1860, 2023

Description

This paper proposes the observations of oil drift and the changes in oil shape and size based on the collocation of Sentinel-1 descending and ascending images with a time lag of 12 hours offshore Nigeria. The oil slicks are first detected from the descending and ascending images using the hierarchical split-based approach to identify oil objects and non-linear filters (mean and standard deviation) to determine oil contours. Then, the detected oil is collocated to estimate the distance and direction of its movements. Finally, surface wind and current data are used for analyzing the relationship between met-ocean conditions and the evolution of oil slicks.

Lien

doi:10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282487