Detection and Analysis of Oil Spill in Ocean for Reduced Complexity in Extraction Using Image Processing

Oil spills occurring in oceans are difficult to detect and require sophisticated measures to obtain and analyze the images. In this chapter, both color image using high-resolution cameras and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are analyzed and certain useful results are obtained to reduce the complexity in extracting the oil spills. The recognition and examination of the oil spill images are done using image processing technique. Furthermore, if the oil spill is scattered as patches, the algorithm classifies the patches into smaller patches and larger ones by using k-means clustering. Hence, the patches depending on the size or intensity can be extracted on a simpler basis.