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    Integration of remote sensing technologies into Arctic oil spill response

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    Author
    Garron, Jessica I.
    Chair
    Meyer, Franz
    Trainor, Sarah
    Committee
    La Belle-Hamer, Nettie
    Lee, Olivia
    Mahoney, Andrew
    Keyword
    Oil spills
    Remote sensing
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12397
    Abstract
    Identifying the tools and pathways to successful integration of landscape level science into decision-making processes is vital for quality environmental stewardship. Remote sensing information can provide critical facts to decision makers that historically were only available via manned airplane flights and ground truthing expeditions. Remote locations like the Arctic are well suited for monitoring with remote sensing tools due to the lack of transportation infrastructure and communications bandwidth. Remote sensing tools can be valuable when monitoring specific Arctic targets like ocean going vessels, sea ice, coastal erosion, off-shore resource development infrastructure, and oil spills. This dissertation addresses how to mount a more efficient and informed response to Arctic oil spills by capitalizing on available RS tools. I posed three research questions to frame this work, 1) What remote sensing tools are currently available, as compared to those currently used in the Incident Command Structure of an oil spill response? 2) Are there barriers to additional remote sensing tool use for oil spill response support? 3) What process changes can improve or increase remote sensing data use in oil spill detection and response? I conducted a four-phased, exploratory sequential mixed methodological study to examine current remote sensing capacity and solutions to expand remote sensing use in support of oil spill response. Phase One defined the remote sensing tools available to support oil spill response, identified how those tools are being used in support of oil spill response actions, and was used as the foundational research to inform the following phases of the study. Phase Two used cloud-processing resources to establish an automated oil detection pipeline. Phase Three addressed human-driven barriers to remote sensing tool use identified in phase one through remote sensing tool training, knowledge coproduction, and remote sensing data integration into oil spill response exercises. Synthesizing all components of Phases One, Two and Three, a remote sensing protocol for the use of unmanned aircraft systems in support of oil spill response was developed and integrated into U.S. Coast Guard operational policy in Alaska to complete Phase Four of this research. This research identifies opportunities and solutions that support improved Arctic oil spill response decision-making through the application of remote sensing data and information.
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    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020
    Table of Contents
    Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Chapter 2: Use and Barriers to Use of Remote-Sensing Tools in Arctic Oil Spill response -- Chapter 3: Cloud-based Oil Detection Processing Pipeline Prototype for C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Data -- Chapter 4: Integrating Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems into Alaskan Oil Spill Response - Applied Case Studies and Operational Protocols -- Chapter 5: Protocol for Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) during an oil spill response or exercise -- Chapter 6: General Conclusion.
    Date
    2020-12
    Type
    Dissertation
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    Geosciences
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