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Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery and SAR-Derived Apparent Surface Oil Extents

Authors: Nan Walker, Chet Pilley
Published On: Jul 16 2014 23:00 UTC
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7266/N7ZC80TP
UDI: Y1.x250.000:0001
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No. of Downloads: 20

No. of Files: 2

File Size: 485.36 MB

File Format(s):
kml, kmz

Project Information

Funded By:
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

Funding Cycle:
Louisiana State University (LSU)

Research Group:
Observations and Modeling to Advance a Louisiana Coastal Circulation and Oil Spill Prediction System

Point of Contact

Chet Pilley
Louisiana State University / Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
chet@esl.lsu.edu

Data Collection Period
2010-05-11
to
2010-07-19
Theme keywords

Sythetic Aperture Radar, surface oil extents, KML, validation dataset, satellite imagery, SAR, Coastal Louisiana

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Abstract:

A zip file containing two archives: one containing KML formated contour files corresponding to similarly named KMZ SAR images in the other archive. Each entry in each archive indicates date, time, and satellite within the file name, i.e. the file 20100630120052_Radarsat1_contours.kml indicates that the file corresponds to a Radarsat-1 image taken June 30th, 2010 at 12:00:52 UTC, and that this is a "contours" files, i.e. a collection of contours indicating areal extent of apparent surface oil within the image's field of view.archive. Each entry in each archive indicates date, time, and satellite within the file name, i.e. the file 20100630120052_Radarsat1_contours.kml indicates that the file corresponds to a Radarsat-1 image taken June 30th, 2010 at 12:00:52 UTC, and that this is a "contours" files, i.e. a collection of contours indicating areal extent of apparent surface oil within the image's field of view.

Suggested Citation:

Nan Walker, Chet Pilley. 2014. Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery and SAR-Derived Apparent Surface Oil Extents. Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7ZC80TP

Purpose:

The purpose of these dataset are to serve as testing and validating datasets for ocean modelers. The dataset also serves as a documentation of DWH surface oil morphology throughout May, June and July of 2010.

Data Parameters and Units:

Geographic imagery has units of reflectance, while contours are provided as latitude and longitude vertices.

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