Detection and dispersion of oil spills from satellite optical images in a coastal bay

In this study, we accomplished to detect oil spill from DubaiSat-2 and Landsat OLI data using VIS/NIR channels with high spatial resolution and we classified oil spill in two types, such as thick oil and film-like oil. It is hard to recognize film-like oil even at the field and more complex to discriminate film-like oil than thick oil from the satellite data because it shows similar appearance with sea water color and their widespread distributions. In this respect, it is significant that we has developed the algorithm for film-like oil. And also we figured out the effects of tidal current and wind driven current to the movement of oil spill by particle tracking.