Advanced oil pollution detection using an airborne hyperspectral lidar technology

The increasing demand on accurately monitoring various pollutions, especially, oil in seawater and in ice, requires the employment of advanced remote sensing means. These techniques must be real-time and suitable for multiple tasks. One of very promising oil remote sensing techniques is a hyperspectral analyze of a laser light reflected by oil film. There is some development work going on in the world. This activity focuses on a modem lidar system, which is called a multi-wave length hyperspectral lidar system. Our paper provides an overview of state-of-art of hyperspectral lidar technology up-to-date.