On the Use of Simulated Airborne Compact Polarimetric SAR for Characterizing Oil–Water Mixing of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Abstract
Compact polarimetry (CP) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a form of coherent dual-pol SAR that has been shown to have great potential for maritime surveillance applications such as ship and ice detection. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of CP data for oil spill characterization. As the availability of CP data is limited at this time, we simulate CP image data from UAVSAR L-Band quad-polarized images. We reconstruct quad-pol SAR data (termed pseudo-quad) from these simulated CP SAR data, and calculate an oil-water mixing index, termed Mdex. We show that the differences between the pseudo-quad and quad-pol Mdex maps are negligible. This contributes to the case that CP SAR has great potential for multiple applications in maritime surveillance.
Additional Information
© 2015 IEEE. Manuscript received June 30, 2014; revised October 27, 2014; accepted January 27, 2015. Date of publication March 15, 2015; date of current version March 27, 2015. The work of M. J. Collins was supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, who sponsored his sabbatical visit. M. J. Collins acknowledges funding support from Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who sponsored his sabbatical visit. C. Jones and B. Holt performed this work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.Additional details
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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