SMART: A Guided Tour

SMART (Special Monitoring of Applied Response Technologies) is a cooperatively-designed monitoring program for dispersant operations and in-situ burning. SMART was developed by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), NOAA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the capabilities of the Federal government, but SMART may be adopted and modified by other users. SMART is an option, not a regulatory requirement.

SMART relies on small, highly mobile teams to deploy to the scene of dispersant applications or in-situ burning operations. The monitoring teams collect real-time data using portable, rugged, and easy-to-use instruments, and channel the data to the Unified Command (UC), a group made up of representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, the state, and the responsible party. The monitoring data provided by these teams assist the Unified Command with these critical questions:

This guided tour will first show you how the SMART program monitors dispersant applications, then will guide you through the monitoring of in-situ burning operations.


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Revised: July 17, 2001
Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration