TY - JOUR
T1 - Remote Sensing Assessment of Oil Spills Near a Damaged Platform in the Gulf of Mexico
AU - Sun, Shaojie
AU - Hu, Chuanmin
AU - Garcia-Pineda, Oscar
AU - Kourafalou, Vassiliki
AU - Le Hénaff, Matthieu
AU - Androulidakis, Yannis
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - An oil platform in the Mississippi Canyon 20 (MC-20) site was damaged by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004. In this study, we use medium- to high-resolution (10-30 m) optical remote sensing imagery to systematically assess oil spills near this site for the period between 2004 and 2016. Image analysis detects no surface oil in 2004, but ~40% of the cloud-free images in 2005 show oil slicks, and this number increases to ~70% in 2006-2011, and > 80% since 2012. For all cloud-free images from 2005 through 2016 (including those without oil slicks), delineated oil slicks show an average oil coverage of 14.9 km
AB - An oil platform in the Mississippi Canyon 20 (MC-20) site was damaged by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004. In this study, we use medium- to high-resolution (10-30 m) optical remote sensing imagery to systematically assess oil spills near this site for the period between 2004 and 2016. Image analysis detects no surface oil in 2004, but ~40% of the cloud-free images in 2005 show oil slicks, and this number increases to ~70% in 2006-2011, and > 80% since 2012. For all cloud-free images from 2005 through 2016 (including those without oil slicks), delineated oil slicks show an average oil coverage of 14.9 km
KW - Oil spill
KW - Optical remote sensing
KW - Taylor Energy
KW - MC-20
KW - Gulf of Mexico
KW - Hurricane
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cimage_pubs/72
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.09.004
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.09.004
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.09.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 30509795
VL - 136
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
ER -