Oil Spill Science and Technology, 2nd Edition

5.9. Integrated Airborne Sensor Systems

Increasingly, a number of different types of airborne oil spill remote sensors are being consolidated into sensor systems. The reason for this integration is to take advantage of the different information provided by each of the specific sensors and combine the information to provide a more comprehensive information product. Although each of the individual sensors has specific inherent weaknesses such as false detections, these false detections are often different for each sensor type; hence, a consolidation of information can help resolve some of the uncertainties that exist from a single data source. Furthermore, additional information can be deduced from the overlaying of imagery from several sensor types. ...