Methods of Monitoring the Persian Gulf Oil Spill Using Digital and Hardcopy Multiband Data

Abstract

A quick response demonstration was performed during the Persian Gulf War that showed a capability to monitor the path of oil dumped into the bay near Kuwait City using commercial satellite imagery. Both manual and semi-automated methods of image analysis were performed on AVHRR and Landsat TM imagery. Estimates of the oil area coverage were obtained using conventional classification methods. A hardcopy generation and reproduction capability was also demonstrated. Persian Gulf, Oil Spill, AVHRR, Landsat TM, Euclidean Distance, Bayesian Discriminant, Classifiers, Hardcopy Processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA257301

Entities

People

  • Donald A. Davis
  • John E. Anderson
  • M. B. Satterwhite
  • Robert S. Rand

Organizations

  • Army Geospatial Center

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  • C4I
  • Sensors
  • Space

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  • Algorithms
  • Area Coverage
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Image Processing
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Satellite Imaging
  • Standards
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Three Dimensional

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  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
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  • Oceanography.

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  • AI & ML
  • Space