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The German Operational Monitoring System in the Baltic Sea: Sensors, Methods and Example Data

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Operational oil pollution surveillance has been performed in Germany for almost 30 years. Sophisticated state-of-the-art sensors are being used for frequent airborne surveillance, while satellite data are used as additional information input on a routine basis. Basic research on the imaging of marine oil pollution by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been performed in Germany since the early 1980s, and a basic understanding of the imaging of biogenic and anthropogenic marine surface films by active microwave sensors has been developed. In this paper, we provide an overview of the current operational surveillance system, and we give some historical background summarising some of the results of the research conducted during the past decades.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Susanne Kranz for her support in producing maps and statistics, to the staff of the Naval Air Wing 3 “Graf Zeppelin”, who operate the German surveillance aircraft, and to the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies, who coordinate the German operational oil spill surveillance.

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  1. Universität Hamburg, ZMAW, Institut für Meereskunde, Bundesstraße 53, 20146, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Gade

  2. Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Referat M4: Geoinformation und Fernerkundung, GDRC, Am Mainzer Tor 1, 56068, Koblenz, Germany

    Björn Baschek

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  1. , P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky Pr. 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    Andrey G. Kostianoy

  2. , Russian Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya Str. 84 /32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    Olga Yu Lavrova

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Gade, M., Baschek, B. (2012). The German Operational Monitoring System in the Baltic Sea: Sensors, Methods and Example Data. In: Kostianoy, A., Lavrova, O. (eds) Oil Pollution in the Baltic Sea. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2011_130

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