Center

Near Real Time Oil Spill Detection using
TerraSAR-X Scansar Mode
Domenico Velotto, Susanne, Lehner, Detmar Krause, Matthias Berg, Egbert Schwarz
Customer Service
Order
Request
Mission Planning
Order Control
Customer
Forties Oil field
Ground Station Neustrelitz
automated data
reception and
archiving
NRT workflow
NO
standard processing
Figure 1:kmz product example for visualisation using Google Earth
German Remote Data Center
TerraSAR Multimode SAR Processor
pre- processing
value adding
NO
L1b product delivery
Customer
Figure 2: shape file product example for GIS application
YES
interactive
Oil-detection
NO Oil spill detected
Oil spill detected
automated
qualification
processor EOC-IMF
automated
product generation
product delivery
(ftp, mail)
user notification
by e-mail
NRT
Processing
Workflow
EOC – DFD
product delivery > 30 min
value added product delivery
(EMSA EOP, OSN, QN, pdf, shp, kmz)
Figure 3: pdf product example
Picture source of Forties Ölfeld: Alexander Trabas, Duisburg / Deutschland, Online List of Lights, http://www.listoflights.org/
Forschungsstelle Maritime Sicherheit
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Kalkhorstweg 53
17235 Neustrelitz
Internet: www.dlr.de/caf