APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING TO THE HEBEI SPIRIT OIL SPILL: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PLAN

Abstract

The results are compared with the spilled area obtained by an oil spill prediction model, and applied to the model as an initial condition. The model results showed an improvement for the prediction of the spilled oil by using the initial condition deduced from satellite image data than the initial condition specified at the oil spill incident site in the respects of the distributed spilled area. Finally, SAR oil signatures are compared with the integral equation model (IEM) surface scattering model which has become one of the theoretical models most widely used for rough surface scattering in microwave remote sensing.