Time Resolved Lidar Fluorosensor for Oil Pollution Detection

Abstract

This work is based on a preliminary experimental research made by researchers of JRC-Ispra1 according to which an airborne fluorosensor system, able to jointly perform a time and spectral analysis of oil fluorescence, is useful for the detection and the characterisation of oil spills on the sea surface. They have demonstrated that while spectral analysis alone can hardly enable to distinguish between two oils of the same class (for example two crude oils), the time-spectral analysis can easily discriminate between two oils with nearly the same spectral pattern.