Real-Time Vessel and Oil Spill Detection using SAR Satellite Imagery: Application to the Argentine Ocean Littoral

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

INDIAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCES

NATL INST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Año: 2016 vol. 45 p. 1101 - 1109

0379-5136

Oil-spill and furtive vessel detection are among the most required real-time monitoring tasks for environmental and government authorities.In Argentina, whose sea jurisdiction is huge (about one million square km), human asisted monitoring is unfeasible, and therefore remote sensing technologies, for instance satellite imagery, are the only operative and economically feasible solution. In this paper we present AMTO {em (Ambiente de Monitoreo Terrestre-Oce´{a}nico)}, a system for real-time vessel and oil spill detection using distribution parameter estimation as a local feature descriptor in the SAR imagery available through the Argentine SAOCOM and Italian COSMO satellite constellations. These results are incorporated in a software product that is being deployed at the National Aerospace Activities Council of Argentina (CONAE).