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In this study the detection of the oil spill using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is considered. Detection of the oil spill is performed using change detection algorithms between imagery acquired at different times. The specific…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Cihan Bayindir , J. David Frost , Christopher F. Barnes

We propose a deep learning framework to detect and categorize oil spills in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images at a large scale. By means of a carefully designed neural network model for image segmentation trained on an extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Martine M. Espeseth , Njål Borch

Detection of oil spills from satellite images is essential for both environmental surveillance and maritime safety. Traditional threshold-based methods frequently encounter performance degradation due to very high false alarm rates caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pavan Kumar Yata , Pediredla Pradeep , Goli Himanish , Swathi M

Segmentation of marine oil spills in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is a challenging task because of the complexity and irregularities in SAR images. In this work, we aim to develop an effective segmentation method which addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Fang Chen , Aihua Zhang , Heiko Balzter , Peng Ren , Huiyu Zhou

Segmenting oil spills from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery remains challenging due to severe appearance variability, scale heterogeneity, and the absence of temporal continuity in real world monitoring scenarios. While foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Shuaiyu Chen , Ming Yin , Peng Ren , Chunbo Luo , Zeyu Fu

Effective oil spill segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is critical for marine oil pollution cleanup, and proper image representation is helpful for accurate image segmentation. In this paper, we propose an effective oil…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Fang Chen , Heiko Balzter , Peng Ren , Huiyu Zhou

Oil spill detection has attracted increasing attention in recent years since marine oil spill accidents severely affect environments, natural resources, and the lives of coastal inhabitants. Hyperspectral remote sensing images provide rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Pedram Ghamisi

Successful implementation of oil spill segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is vital for marine environmental protection. In this paper, we develop an effective segmentation framework named DGNet, which performs oil spill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Fang Chen , Heiko Balzter , Feixiang Zhou , Peng Ren , Huiyu Zhou

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery to monitor oil spills are some methods that have been proposed for the West African sub-region. With the increase in the number of oil exploration companies in Ghana (and her neighbors) and the rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Griffith S. Klogo , Akpeko Gasonoo , Isaac K. E. Ampomah

Human civilization has an increasingly powerful influence on the earth system. Affected by climate change and land-use change, natural disasters such as flooding have been increasing in recent years. Earth observations are an invaluable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Ritu Yadav , Andrea Nascetti , Hossein Azizpour , Yifang Ban

Ocean surface monitoring, especially oil slick detection, has become mandatory due to its importance for oil exploration and risk prevention on ecosystems. For years, the detection task has been performed manually by photo-interpreters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Emna Amri , Hermann Courteille , A Benoit , Philippe Bolon , Dominique Dubucq , Gilles Poulain , Anthony Credoz

Rapid assessment after a natural disaster is key for prioritizing emergency resources. In the case of landslides, rapid assessment involves determining the extent of the area affected and measuring the size and location of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Vanessa Böhm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollan

Oil spills pose severe environmental risks, making early detection crucial for effective response and mitigation. As Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images operate under all-weather conditions, SAR-based oil spill segmentation enables fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jaeho Moon , Jeonghwan Yun , Jaehyun Kim , Jaehyup Lee , Munchurl Kim

Bi-temporal change detection at scale based on Very High Resolution (VHR) images is crucial for Earth monitoring. This remains poorly addressed so far: methods either require large volumes of annotated data (semantic case), or are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yanis Benidir , Nicolas Gonthier , Clement Mallet

Semantic Change Detection (SCD) is recognized as both a crucial and challenging task in the field of image analysis. Traditional methods for SCD have predominantly relied on the comparison of image pairs. However, this approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yinhe Liu , Sunan Shi , Zhuo Zheng , Jue Wang , Shiqi Tian , Yanfei Zhong

Most existing change detection (CD) methods focus on optical images captured at different times, and deep learning (DL) has achieved remarkable success in this domain. However, in extreme scenarios such as disaster response, synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ziyuan Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Wenyu Wang , Yuantao Gu

Crude oil is an integral component of the world economy and transportation sectors. With the growing demand for crude oil due to its widespread applications, accidental oil spills are unfortunate yet unavoidable. Even though oil spills are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Abhishek Ramanathapura Satyanarayana , Maruf A. Dhali

In this note we deal with the detection of oil spills in open sea via self similar, long range dependence random fields and wavelet filters. We show some preliminary experimental results of our technique with Sentinel 1 SAR images.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Agustín Mailing , Segundo A. Molina , José L. Hamkalo , Fernando R. Dobarro , Juan M. Medina , Bruno Cernuschi-Frías , Daniel A. Fernández , Érica Schlaps

Deep learning methods have made significant progress in ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The pretraining technique is usually adopted to support deep neural networks-based SAR ship detectors due to the scarce labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Wei Bao , Meiyu Huang , Yaqin Zhang , Yao Xu , Xuejiao Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is the main instrument utilized for the detection of oil slicks on the ocean surface. In SAR images, some areas affected by ocean phenomena, such as rain cells, upwellings, and internal waves, or discharge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xiaojian Liu , Yansheng Li
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