PA41B-2173
Advancing Partnerships Towards an Integrated Approach to Oil Spill Response
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Tim Stough, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sonia C Gallegos, NASA Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, David S Green, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Ira Leifer, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, John J Murray, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Davida Streett, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Abstract:
Oil spills can cause enormous ecological and economic devastation, necessitating application of the best science and technology available, and remote sensing is playing a growing critical role in the detection and monitoring of oil spills, as well as facilitating validation of remote sensing oil spill products. The FOSTERRS (Federal Oil Science Team for Emergency Response Remote Sensing) interagency working group seeks to ensure that during an oil spill, remote sensing assets (satellite/aircraft/instruments) and analysis techniques are quickly, effectively, appropriately, and seamlessly available to oil spills responders. Yet significant challenges remain for addressing oils spanning a vast range of chemical properties that may be spilled from the Tropics to the Arctic, with algorithms and scientific understanding needing advances to keep up with technology. Thus, FOSTERRS promotes enabling scientific discovery to ensure robust utilization of available technology as well as identifying technologies moving up the TRL (Technology Readiness Level). A recent FOSTERRS facilitated support activity involved deployment of the AVIRIS NG (Airborne Visual Infrared Imaging Spectrometer- Next Generation) during the Santa Barbara Oil Spill to validate the potential of airborne hyperspectral imaging to real-time map beach tar coverage including surface validation data. Many developing airborne technologies have potential to transition to space-based platforms providing global readiness.
