Monitoring Marine Oil-spill Using Microwave Remote Sensing Technology

Oil spill pollution, a severe environmental problem, which persists in marine environment or in inland water across the world, has grown to an alarming magnitude with increased levels of oil production and transport. A successful combating operation to a marine oil spill depends on the rapid response from the time the oil spill is detected. In fact, the concept of oil spill contingency planning refers to several activities for developing an immediate response program and undeniably the most important one is oil spill detection. This paper presents the recent research and progress of monitoring marine oil-spill using microwave remote sensing technology and future development is overviewed.