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The German operational monitoring system in the North Sea: sensors, methods and example data
Baschek, B.; Gade, M.; van Bernem, K.-H.; Schwichtenberg, F. (2016). The German operational monitoring system in the North Sea: sensors, methods and example data, in: Carpenter, A. (Ed.) Oil pollution in the North Sea. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 41: pp. 161-192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/698_2015_399
In: Carpenter, A. (Ed.) (2016). Oil pollution in the North Sea. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 41. Springer: Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-319-23900-2. xii, 312 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23901-9, more
In: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Springer: Heidelberg. ISSN 1867-979X; e-ISSN 1616-864X, more
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Keywords
    Agents > Dispersants
    Infrared
    Pollution > Oil pollution
    Ultraviolet
    Germany [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Aerial surveillance; Drift modelling; Environmental sensitivity; Satellite services; Synthetic aperture radar

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  • Baschek, B.
  • Gade, M.
  • van Bernem, K.-H.
  • Schwichtenberg, F.

Abstract
    Operational oil pollution surveillance has been performed in Germany for almost 30 years. Sophisticated state-of-the-art sensors are being used for frequent airborne surveillance, while satellite data are used as prewarning and additional information input on a routine basis. In parallel, basic research on the imaging of marine oil pollution by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been performed, and a basic understanding of the imaging of biogenic and anthropogenic marine surface films by active microwave sensors has been developed. In this paper, we provide an overview of the current operational surveillance system, and we give some historical background summarising some of the results of the research conducted during the past decades. Within this chapter, example images from pollution events are given for several sensors. The German coast’s spatial and temporal vulnerability to oil pollution is quantified, and the use of dispersants in a highly vulnerable ecosystem such as the “Wadden Sea” is discussed.

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