Thursday, August 5, 2010

IR contrast of crude-oil-covered water

"Infrared contrast of crude-oil-covered water surfaces", by Wei-Chuan Shih and A. Ballard Andrews, Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 24, pp. 3019-3021 (2008)

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Emissivity of thin oil films

Unpolarized emissivity of thin oil films over anisotropic Gaussian seas in infrared window regions,"

Appl. Opt. 49, 2116-2131 (2010), by Nicolas Pinel, Christophe Bourlier, and Irina Sergievskaya is online at:
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-11-2116.

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Thermal infrared remote sensing of crude oil slicks

In: Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 45, Issue 2, August 1993, Pages 225-231.

by John W. Salisbury a, Dana M. D'Aria a and Floyd F. Sabins Jr.b
aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore U.S.A.
bChevron Oil Field Research Company, La Habra, California U.S.A.

(Abstract Online)
With all the interest on the Gulf Oil spill and recent accounts of the use by British Petroleum and others of Infrared Thermal Imaging to search for surface oil slicks, it seemed very timely to be sure we had included some links and summaries of articles dealing with the thermal Infrared optical properties of crude oil on seawater.

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Increasing the accuracy of your temperature measurements.

Monitor Newsletter at Windmill Software ( https://www.windmill.co.uk/ ) regularly publishes useful articles related to measurement, control,...