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The SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) has the capabilities for all-weather day and night use. In the case of determining the effects of oil spill dumping, the oil spills areas are shown as dark spots in the SAR images. Therefore, using SAR data to detect oil spills is becoming progressively popular in operational monitoring, which is useful for oceanic environmental protection and hazard reduction. Research has been conducted on the polarization decomposition and scattering characteristics of oil spills from a scattering matrix using allpolarization of the SAR data, calculation of the polarization parameters, and utilization of the CPD (Co-polarized Phase Difference) of the oil and the sea, in order to extract the oil spill information. This method proves to be effective by combining polarization parameters with the characteristics of oil spill. The results show that when using Bragg, the oil spill backscattering machine with Enopy and a mean scatter α parameter. The oil spill can be successfully identified. However, the parameter mechanism of the oil spill remains unclear. The use of CPD can easily extract oil spill information from the ocean, and the polarization research provides a base for oil spill remote sensing detection.
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Foundation item: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 41376183; the High Resolution Images Services Special Projection for ocean applications; the Oceanography Public Welfare Scientific Research Project-Marine of China under contract No. 201205012.
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Cai, Y., Zou, Y., Liang, C. et al. Research on polarization of oil spill and detection. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 35, 84–89 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-015-0817-x
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