Author:Mdakane, Lizwe W; Kleynhans, WDate:Oct 2020Oil spills are often caused by vessels when dumping oily bilge wastewater at sea (also referred to as bilge dumping). In an synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, oil spills dampen the radar energy return and appear as linearly shaped dark ...Read more
Author:Mdakane, Lizwe W; Kleynhans, WaldoDate:Jun 2017Oil slick events caused due to bilge leakage/dumps from ships and from other anthropogenic sources pose a threat to the aquatic ecosystem and need to be monitored on a regular basis. An automatic image-segmentation-based framework to detect ...Read more