Construction and application of marine oil spill gravity vector differences detection model

Abstract

This paper proposes a new marine oil spill gravity vector differences detection model based on scalability or viscosity of the oil and water. The model used the median filtering, zero pixels elimination, image normalization, nonlinear transformation, and brought in the law of gravity. The research was upon two oil spill incidents which occurred on the Mediterranean Sea in 2004 and the Gulf of Mexico in 2006. Based on the MODIS remote sensing data, we executed the model to detect the two incidents and compared the results with the results of Sobel detection algorithm. The experimental results illustrated that the model introduced in this paper is superior to Sobel detection algorithm. The proposed model is powerful in oil spill detection. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.