Opearational System to Generate Marine Pollution Information (MPI) Using Satellites, Aircrafts, Drones and Mobile Devices

Korea Coast Guard (KCG) is operating several types of platforms such as manned and unmanned aircrafts, satellites and smart devices for marine pollution monitoring and surveillance. Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) has developed an operational system to generate 5 types of Marine Pollution Information (MPI) for oil spills and some species of floating Hazardous and Noxious Substances (HNS) using multiple platforms. The system, denoted as ISABU (Integrated remote-Sensing Application for oil/f-HNS spill oBservation & evalUation), supports open and commercial SAR and Optical satellites and airplane/drone-based EO video/image and mobile phone. Accuracies of MPI detection exceeds 85% for satellites and 84% for aircrafts, with processing time around 2 minutes for aircraft, PlanetScope, and Landsat, and up to 12 minutes for Sentinel-1/2. An optional function allows experts to evaluate MPIs based on data sources including oceanic and atmospheric environment and ship traffic.