Oil pollution can be monitored by infrared remote sensing technology. In this work, the degree of po-larization (DOP) was established as a quantitative index of oil pollution. The crude oil and the local typical surface soil from the Songyuan oil field in Jilin province were collected. Some soil samples with four levels of oil content and three levels of water content were prepared and measured. The DOP of the polluted soil and the clean soil in the field was also measured at 180° relative viewing azimuth angle, and 10°, 30° and 50° viewing zenith angles. It was found that with rising soil oil content, the DOP of the reflected light on the soil surface increased when the soil water content was low, and decreased when the soil water content was high.
WANG YuanSHENG LianXiLI KeZHAO NaiZhuoZHAO YunSheng
This study is concerned with the need for remote sensing techniques for the monitoring of oil-slick pollution on sea surfaces and the effects of oil-slick pollution on the sea.We used Daqing crude oil,Jilin crude oil,heavy oil and seawater from Dalian Bay to simulate oil-slick pollution on the sea surface and obtained multi-angle hyperspectral polarized reflectance information,from which we calculated the polarization for different kinds of crude oil,and oil-slicks of different thicknesses.By comparing the degree of polarization between oil-slicks of different thickness,and sea water,it was found that in the case of thin oil-slicks,the degree of polarization of seawater is higher than that of oil slicks with wavelengths of between 400-1000 nm.However,there was little difference at a wavelength of 785 nm.At angles of incident of 20° and 30° (the viewing angle equals the incident angle),it was easy to distinguish the changes of oil-slick thickness by the degree of polarization at 785 and 880 nm in the near-infrared band.The crude oil showed its inherent polarized characteristic as the oil-slick thickness increased to a certain degree.That is to say,the polarization of the seawater was higher than that of the oil-slick in the visible light range,but less than that in the near-infrared band.As the incident angle changed from 40° to 50°,the degree of polarization of seawater increased,and it was higher than that for the oil-sick between wavelengths of 400-1000 nm at an angle of incidence of 50°.This research on the polarized characteristics of an oil-slick on a sea surface brings new scientific techniques to the monitoring of sea-surface pollution by remote sensing.
SUN ZhongQiu ZHAO YunSheng YAN GuoQian LI ShaoPing
