Indonesian seas Numerical Assessment of the Coastal Environment (IndoNACE)

Description of the IndoNACE Project:

This Pilot Study will aim at improving the information on the state of the marine environment that is gained from satellite data. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data will be used to produce oil pollution density maps of dedicated areas in Indonesian waters. In parallel, maps of particularly vulnerable coastal areas will be produced, which will be based upon UNEP-data (http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/) complimented by environmental data hosted by the Indonesian partner institute. A numerical model will be used to combine both information sets, on existing pollution and on sensitive coastal areas. We will demonstrate that our approach can be used to identify strongly affected coastal areas (with most oil pollution being driven onshore), but also sensitive parts of major ship traffic lanes (where any oil pollution is likely to be driven into marine protected areas.

With the high resolution data provided by RADARSAT-2 and TerraSAR-X it will be possible even to study small scale eddies with sizes of less than 1 km. Using data from both satellites we will benfit from the high spatial resolution, the multiple modes of polarisation (more robust feature detection and classification) and the higher temporal resolution.

Principal investigator

• Dr. Thomas Pohlmann (Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg (UHH), Germany)

Co-investigators

• Dr. Mutiara Putri (Instute Technology of Bandung (ITB), Indonesia)
• Dr. Martin Gade (Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg (UHH), Germany)
• Dr. Agus Setiawan (Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research and Development (AMFRD), Jakarta, Indonesia)
• Dr. Bernhard Mayer (Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg (UHH), Germany)
• Dr. Jian Su (Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg (UHH), Germany)

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