Assimilative 2-D Lagrangian Transport Model for the Estimation of Oil Leakage Parameters From SAR Images: Application to the Montara Oil Spill.

Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to oil spill since Indonesian waters, which account for 80% of its territory, involve a very active maritime traffic and a large number of onshore and offshore oil platforms. Within the framework of Infrastructure Development Space Oceanography project, we address the operational synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based monitoring of oil spill in Indonesian waters ...