Abstract:
An important and serious cause of marine pollution at sea surface is oil spill pollution.
Oil spill usually occur at main ship traffic routes, near to platforms or in mouth of
rivers or estuaries. The application of RADARSAT satellites are being used to
routinely monitor ocean oil pollution. Their main advantages are independence of the
sun light. That mean its can be used at day and night. However, they will present
speckle and noise. To reduce these speckle and noise, adaptive filter was used. This
study mainly concerned on comparison between Lee and Kuan Algorithm for oil spill
detection from SAR images. Lee algorithm was used to determine the linearity of oil
movements, while Kuan algorithm was used to enhance ships.
