Advancement of MARINE SCOUT
Under Interagency Agreement (IAA) E13PG00031, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)/U.S. Army Night Vision team completed a program that demonstrated a compact, lightweight, multi-spectral airborne sensor payload capable of detecting oil on water, distinguishing it from false postives such as kelp forests, and providing a reliable estimate of the thickness of the oil. The purpose of this project is to advance the current MARINE SCOUT payload for algorithm development and semi-automation for (near) real-time data processing.