Remote Sensing Data for Anthropogenic Chronic Oil Discharge - Offshore Louisiana, 2004-2012

This dataset contains satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from offshore Louisiana, 2004-2012. SAR images provided by the Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Images associated with Gulf oil spills were processed using either the Texture Classifying Neural Network Algorithm (TCCNA) or the digitizing tool in ArcGIS to manually identify oil slicks. This dataset supports the publication: Asl, S.D., Amos, J., Woods, P., Garcia-Pineda, O., and MacDonald, I.R. (2015). Chronic, Anthropogenic Hydrocarbon Discharges in the Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 129: 187-195.