AMTO: Real-Time Vessel and Oil Spill Detection in SAR Satellite Imagery

C. A. DELRIEUX; P. ODORICO; L. RODRÍGUEZ; M. P. CIPOLLETTI

Bariloche

Congreso; XV RPIC; 2013

Universida de Río Negro

Oil-spill and vessel detection are among the most relevant monitoring tasks that may beaccomplished using satellite imagery. This is specially the case in Argentina, whose sea jurisdiction is too large to be controlled otherwise. Recent associated efforts between the National Aerospace Activities Council of Argentina (CONAE) and the Italian counterpart,to operate together the SAOCOM and COSMO satellite constellations, enabled the possibility of developing a system capable of providing accurate, realtime monitoring. In this work we describe the theoretical foundations and implementation details of AMTO(Ambiente de Monitoreo Terrestre-Oce´anico), a system specifically designed to take advantage of the SAR imagery delivered by those two satellite constellations, and to provide real-time detection of vessels and oil spills.