Oil spills
2-Dimensional Spread-Dispersion Rate Predictive Models For Oil Spills In Atlas Cove Jetty Water Environment
... The designated bearings and distance describing the network route essential for this work in developing stochastic Abstract: The search for the development of models to predict the dispersion rate of oil ...
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Application of multifractal analysis to the study of SAR features and oil spills on the ocean surface
... detect oil spills and the dynamic state of the sea regarding turbulent ...ent oil spills detected by means of SAR images. Recent spills and weathered ones are selected and compared to ...
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Fractal Dimension Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Oil Spills in RADARSAT-1 SAR 7
... for oil spill ...of oil spills in SAR ...for oil spill detection have been utilized, including pattern recognition algorithm (Fukunaga 1990), spatial frequency spectrum gradient (Lombardini et ...
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Effect of localized oil spills on Atlantic loggerhead population dynamics
... peninsula. Oil spills are simulated de- terministically in each population's nesting re- gion, with 1) oil-induced mortality ranging from 25% to 100% and 2) stage classes affected either ...
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Examining the accounts of oil spills crises in Nigeria through sensegiving and defensive behaviours
... involving oil spill incidents have largely focused on one-off incidents (Arora and Lodhia, 2017; Botes and Samkin, 2013; Deegan et ...where oil spills regularly occur. Recurring oil ...
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Remote Sensing for Detection and Monitoring of Vegetation Affected by Oil Spills
... by oil spills in the Niger Delta ...where oil facilities are located ...by oil spills and ability to discriminate them from the ones at the NSS as found in ...by oil ...
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Sustainability criteria: compensation preferences and WTP to avoid future oil spills in Spain
... in oil spill management ...in oil spill management as well as the activation of contingency plans as a response to oil spills (Ministerio de Fomento, ...to oil spills) are ...
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Sustainability criteria: Compensation preferences and WTP to avoid future oil spills in Spain
... Article 45 of the Spanish Constitution states that, "all individuals have the right to enjoy an adequate environment that enables their appropriate development as well as the duty to preserve it. The authorities will ...
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NSW - MEP : Maritime and marine risk assessment of calamitous (oil) spills
... of oil release and the probability that oil may reach the Dutch coastline it can be concluded that the additional risk of oil pollution due to a collision with the wind farm is very low compared with ...
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An introduction to Marine oil spills
... Horizon Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has raised serious concerns about the likely environmental impact on the inshore waters and shores of all the Gulf States (Florida, Alabama, Mississippii, Louisiana and ...
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" Oil Spills in the Australian Marine Environment: Environmental Consequences and Response Technologies "
... in oil and chemical pollution response in the marine ...of oil spills and the new technologies being employed for improving spill surveillance, modelling of slick trajectories and the development of ...
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Matching fluorescence spectra of oil spills with spectra from suspect sources
... Using point-to-point spectral matching algorithms, fluo- rescence spectra of different samples can be distinguished quantitatively. Within all similarity indexes investigated in this work, first derivative Euclidean is ...
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Detection of Oil Spills in SAR Images using Threshold Segmentation Algorithms
... An oil spill detection algorithm was implemented based syn- thetic aperture radar images; this algorithm is mainly based on local and global threshold ...between oil spills and look alike. Oil ...
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The effect of vertical mixing on the horizontal drift of oil spills
... for oil spill transport into a comprehensive oil spill model and to describe the potential outcome of oil spills with regard to both vertical and horizontal ...for oil droplet size ...
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Marinobacter sp. from marine sediments produce highly stable surface-active agents for combatting marine oil spills
... marine oil spills is raising concerns related to their potential toxicity also towards microbes involved in oil ...Hence, oil spills occurring under marine environments necessitate the ...
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Oil Spills- A Threat to the Ocean Life by Humans
... environment. Oil spills are one of the most disastrous types of sea pollution caused mainly due to ...humans. Oil spills mainly occurring during transportation have a harmful effect on the ...
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A Comparison of Response Technologies for Offshore Oil Spills Exxon Valdez and BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills
... DWH oil spill show enhanced microbial respiration, but signs of phosphate stress indicated this nutrient was a factor limiting the rate of biodegradation (Edwards et ...(oil spills) to the Gulf of ...
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Development of band ratioing algorithms and neural networks to detection of oil spills using Landsat ETM+ data
... Oil spills are causing serious damage to marine and coastal ...world oil produc- tion ends up in the ...of oil pollution originating from transportation activities still originates not from ...
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Oil Spills and their Effect on the Properties of Soil
... Abstract: Oil spills has a negative effect on the environment and on the ecological life and it may also change the geotechnical properties of the ...crude oil products (kerosene and diesel) and ...
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Evaluation of environmental sensitivity of the coastal plains shoreline to oil spills: Southwestern Sinai coastal plain, Egypt
... 2. Oil spills are poisonous to coral reefs through exposure to ...of oil to reefs which happens for the shallow coral reefs ...Sink oil or dissolved toxic oil components can affect the ...
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