Oil Spill Segmentation in Fused Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite systems are very efficient in oil spill monitoring due to their capability to operate under all weather conditions. Systems such as the Envisat and RADARSAT have been used independently in many studies to detect oil spill. This paper presents an automatic feature based image registration and fusion algorithm for oil spill monitoring using SAR images. A range of metrics are used to evaluate the performance of the algorithm and to demonstrate the benefits of fusing SAR images of different modalities. The proposed framework has shown 45% improvement of the oil spill location when compared with the individual images before the fusion