Oil and Gas Applications of Remote Sensing and UAV Systems
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2017) | Viewed by 10177
Special Issue Editor
Interests: image processing; photogrammetry; optical and SAR remote sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in Earth observation (EO) sensors, including space-borne high-resolution multispectral, polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), have brought increasing attention to applications of data acquired by such sensors for environmental, energy and natural resource mapping and monitoring. For years, oil and gas as a major source of energy and natural resources has been explored in both maritime and terrestrial environments. Extraction and transportation (pipelines) of oil/gas can cause extensive environmental changes on both sea and land ecosystems. Remote sensing has been and is being utilized as a timely and cost-effective tool to detect and monitor such changes.
This Special Issue shall explore new trends in algorithm development, image processing and applications of remote sensing and UAV systems in mapping and environmental monitoring related to oil and gas activities. This special issue considers applications in both maritime and terrestrial environments. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Detection of terrestrial oil and wastewater spills and their effects on ecosystems, such as forest, wetlands, etc.
- Maritime oil spill contamination detection and extent mapping
- Combination of EO, UAV and Electromagnetic Survey (EM) data for monitoring oil/gas related activities
- Subsidence detection caused by oil and gas exploration in terrestrial areas using InSAR technologies
- Mapping of oil/gas exploration caused linear (e.g., seismic lines) and areal (e.g., well site) disturbances
- Oil spill detection in sea ice
- UAV pipeline and corridor mapping
Dr. Bahram Salehi, P. Eng
Guest Editor
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