The mounting interest in extracting oil and other resources from the continental shelf and continuing use of shelf and estuarine waters for waste disposal is creating a need for synoptic means of determining currents and monitoring pollutants in this area. A satellite-aircraft-drogue approach is described which employs remotely tracked expendable drogues together with satellite and aircraft observations of waste plumes and current tracers such as dyes or suspended sediment. Tests conducted on the continental shelf and in Delaware Bay indicate that the approach provides a cost-effective means of studying current circulation, oil-slick movement, and ocean waste dispersion under a wide range of environmental conditions.
Satellite, aircraft, and drogue studies of coastal currents and pollutants
Studien der Kuestenstroemung und Wasserverunreinigung mit Hilfe von Satelliten, Flugzeugen und Windsaecken
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics ; GE-15 , 2 ; 97-108
1977
12 Seiten, 17 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
NTIS | 1974
|NTRS | 1974