An Assessment of the Indonesian Coastal Environment based on SAR imagery
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Gade, Martin; Mayer, Bernhard; Pohlmann, Thomas; Putri, Mutiara; Setiawan, Agus
- Source
- 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016 IEEE International. :2227-2230 Jul, 2016
- Subject
- General Topics for Engineers
Signal Processing and Analysis
Oils
Java
Oil pollution
Numerical models
Synthetic aperture radar
Oceans
Water pollution
SAR
oil pollution
Indonesia
Marine Protected Areas
tracer model
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-7003
In the frame of the German-Indonesian pilot study IndoNACE (Indonesian Seas Numerical Assessment of the Coastal Environment), a wealth of SAR data of two dedicated regions in Indonesian waters are being analysed with respect to the imaging of marine oil pollution. Numerical tracer studies using a regional 3-d numerical model are used to aid those analyses and to help understanding the observed seasonal variations in marine oil pollution. Our first results are based on 130 ENVISAT ASAR images of each of the two regions of interest, the ‘Western Java Sea’ and the ‘Makassar Strait’ and indicate that most pollution was found in areas of high ship traffic and of intense oil production.