Stine Skrunes

TL;DR: It is found that the two most powerful multipolarization features extracted from this data set are the geometric intensity, measuring the combined intensity based on the determinant of the coherency matrix, and the real part of the copolarization cross product, which is related to the scattering behavior of the target.

TL;DR: Multipolarization features show enhanced slick-sea contrasts and a better discrimination between mineral oil spills and other low-backscatter features in Radarsat-2 compared with TerraSAR-X, while investigation of logcumulants indicates a larger deviation from Gaussian statistics in the TerraSar-X data compared with Radar-2 measurements.

TL;DR: In this article, a controlled release experiment was conducted in the North Sea in June 2015, during which mineral oil emulsions of different volumetric oil fractions and a look-alike biogenic oil were released and allowed to develop naturally.

TL;DR: Although detection is possible, discrimination between slick types, using multipolarization parameters previously found useful for this purpose, is not possible under these conditions for the acquisitions in the instance studied.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the HP mode is a viable alternative for SAR-based oil spill detection and monitoring that provides comparable results to those from the quad-polarimetric SAR.