Paper Info
Title
Model-Based Sea Surface Scattering Analysis For The Dwh Oil Spill Accident Case
Abstract
This study proposed a novel method to analyze slick-free and oil covered sea surface backscattering in the special case of Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill accident based on combination of tilted Bragg scattering and volume scattering components. The DWH accident represents a particular and challenging case due to the very large amount of leaked oil that came from the bottom of the ocean. The proposed scattering model consists of first estimate the large scale tilting angle of sea surface Bragg scattering mechanism and then of the retrieval, through its linear relationship with the relative dielectric constant, of oil-in-sea volume concentration. Finally, Bragg and volume scattering components can be estimated which provide useful information for a better understanding of i) the sea surface status and ii) the weak-damping properties the leaked oil due to purification/emulsification phenomena. The model is tested considering actual UAVSAR L-band fully-polarimetric SAR data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7731011
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), polarimetry, Deepwater Horizon (DWH), oil spill, backscattering
Oil spill,Surface cleaning,Synthetic aperture radar,Backscatter,Remote sensing,Horizon,Bragg's law,Scattering,Volume scattering,Geology
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu Li1183.88
Yuanzhi Zhang226939.70
Jie Chen32312.76
Maurizio Migliaccio446782.94
Andrea Del Buono5218.09