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Episode 9: Forensic Oceanography
The Loop
Document Type
Podcast
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Keywords
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill,
- Gulf of Mexico,
- C-IMAGE
Disciplines
Abstract
Listen to learn how scientists reanalyzed remotely sensed data taken in the late 1970s to study the Ixtoc 1 oil spill. Dr. Chuanmin Hu and his graduate student Shaojie Sun use the Landsat and Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) data to develop “treasure maps” of oil from the IXTOC-1 spill to steer field studies. Listen in to find out how they did it.
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Forensic Oceanography, The Loop, Mind Open Media
Citation Information
David Levin, Chuanmin Hu and Shaojie Sun. "Episode 9: Forensic Oceanography" (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/chuanmin_hu/130/