Monitoring of Oil Pollution by GIS and Remote-Sensing case Of West Algeria Harbours

Abstract

Marine pollution is one of some troubling aspects of the deterioration of natural environment. This pollution is a major risk which could hadicap seriously the biosphere geosphere balance. The harbours of Arzew are concerned by a big naval traffic; bound to an industrial zone particularly with great risk in matter of pollution. The work presented in this paper focuses on an approach that uses mainly in situ data based on Physical and chemical analysis of water sampling and remote sensing data. The other objectif assigned to this work is to integrate these knowledges in a geographical information system (GIS), in order to have a global and integrated vision with all source of data and characteristics, in a comprehensible and especially convivial form.