monitored daily
The Norwegian oil spill detection service is provided by KSAT worldwide and end users in i.e. Australia and Gulf of Mexico benefits from the service development done in Norway. One of the challenges using satellites has been frequency and update intervals. With current developments in the satellite industry, satellite coverage will be provided more frequently and updated information will be available even faster, thus improving the capacities in the case of acute pollution.
Clean Gulf 2016Wednesday, November 02
Session 6C: Surveillance - Manned Airborne, Satellite, and Fixed Detection, Room 25
1:30 : “Oil Spill Detection and Response Using Satellite Imagery”
(by Paul Whitaker, Director of Strategy, KSAT)