كاربرد فن آوري پردازش تصوير جهت برآورد ميزان دوده فرونشسته در ايران طي جنگ خليج فارس

Application of image processing for estimating the amount of soot deposition in Iran after the Persian Gulf war

In late February 1991, the burning of the Kuwaiti oil wells produced and emitted huge amounts of smokes in the region. Because of the importance of environmental impacts and for the completition of related previous studies, the emitted smoke was tracked for several days in February and March by a new image processing method. In this new method, a reference image was for considering the effects of the cloudy regions and another was used for the effects of specific atmospheric and land surface conditions. Therefore the smoke index for !ran and the whole region was determined. According to this index, and considering the buring of about 4 million barrels of crude oil per dag and the amount of spreaded soot by burning a unit of crude oil some analysis was done which resulted in an estimation of soot deposited in Iran. These estimations showed that from the beginning of the burning of oil wells to the end of March, approximately thirty-thousand tons of soot have been deposited in Iran by black rain.