Evidence of hydrocarbon contamination from the Burgan oil field, Kuwait—Interpretations from thermal remote sensing data

Din, Saif Ud; Dousari, Ahmad Al; Literathy, P.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.12.028

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“…For example, soil property changes from the 1991 Kuwaiti oil spill for over 100 oil lakes were monitored with Landsat TM land surface temperature (LST) data (Husain & Amin, 1995). Areas with higher LST had either shallower or greater oil contamination than areas with lower LST, and gradually decreased over the 7-year study (Ud Din et al, 2008).…”

Section: Oil Spill Impactsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Oil spills provide an opportunity to field test new approaches under real world conditions (Clark et al, 2010), as does the post-spill period for monitoring technologies (Ud Din et al, 2008). Although oil spills occur frequently, they are unpredictable and highly challenging for data collection mobilization, particularly for small oil spills.…”

Section: Real World Application Of Remote Sensing Technology To Oil Smentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Environmental pollution by petroleum hydrocarbons has become a global issue, with particular importance in places such as Kuwait (1–3), India (4), Libya (5), China (6, 7), and the United States (8). Crude oil contamination occurs quite often as a result of exploration, production, maintenance, transportation, storage, and accidental release, leading to significant ecological impacts (9, 10).…”

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Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain N002, Isolated from Crude Oil-Contaminated Soil from Geleky, Assam, India

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“…Studies on the UHI phenomenon using satellite derived Land Surface Temperature (LST) measurements have been conducted using AVHRR data [14][15][16][17] for urban temperature mapping on regional scale. Landsat TM and Landsat ETM+ data with 120 and 60 m resolutions are useful for LST measurement [18] and for studying UHI on local scale [19,20]. Studies have shown a close relationship between soil moisture, vegetation cover, and radiant temperature [7].…”

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A Remote Sensing Classification for Land-Cover Changes and Micro-Climate in Kuwait

Uddin¹,

Ghadban²,

Dousari³

et al. 2010

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The paper addresses the issue of micro-climatic variations due to changing land-cover in the study area. Kuwait has undergone a unique environmental catastrophe during 1991 Gulf war in the form of oil lakes and spills on land, which has left permanent scars on the desert surface. The region is experiencing large scale urban expansion with the growing population needs and political stability. New townships planned with expansion of existing ones, rapid development in petroleum sector, all these developments are resulting in Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect both over the city and the hydrocarbon contaminated sites. In this study the Landsat image of 1989, 1991 and 2000 are used to compute surface temperature and land-cover classification to understand the relationship between micro-climate and land-cover. The results have shown increased temperatures over both the built-up areas and hydrocarbon contaminated surface. The long term temperature trend in the area shows an incremental trend since 1980s, which increases sharply in post 1990s, probably due to cumulative effect of hydrocarbon pollution, urban-industrial development and increased carbon emission. The study utilized the novel approach of land-cover classification using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI) and Normalized Difference Bareness Index (NDBare). These indices are related to the Land Surface Temperature (LST) computed using satellite datasets. Results show a negative correlation of NDVI, NDWI, and NDBare with surface temperature. NDBI is positively correlated with temperature. Although there are isolated instances where bare surfaces show increased temperature at places and these temperatures are comparable to built-up area, the most pertinent reason for this temperature hike is obliteration of emissive property of desert soil due to hydrocarbon leftovers and mixing of hydrocarbon leftovers with soil for bioremediation. These remediated soils are used in plantation and re-vegetation giving higher thermal signatures, mainly because of scanty vegetation cover.

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Evidence of hydrocarbon contamination from the Burgan oil field, Kuwait—Interpretations from thermal remote sensing data

Cited by 33 publications

References 28 publications

State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain N002, Isolated from Crude Oil-Contaminated Soil from Geleky, Assam, India

A Remote Sensing Classification for Land-Cover Changes and Micro-Climate in Kuwait

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