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Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
| Project Number |
161 |
| Date of
Summary |
April 5, 2002 |
| Subject |
Development of a New
Generation Laser Fluorosensor |
| Performing
Activity |
Emergencies Science Division, Environment Canada |
| Principal
Investigator |
Dr. Merv F. Fingas,
Dr. Carl E. Brown |
| Contracting
Agency |
Minerals Management
Service |
| Estimated
Completion |
September 30, 2001 |
| Description |
This is a Joint
Industry Project (JIP) between MMS, Environment Canada, U.S. Coast Guard, Canadian
Transportation Development Centre, and the Canadian Petroleum Association to develop the
new laser fluorosensor technology for the detection of oil on water, ice and on
shorelines. The objectives of this project include: develop the technology of laser
fluorosensing for oil spill application including oil on water, on shorelines, among
debris, ice or weeds and oil on ice; develop prototype instruments; and test these
instruments. Ground testing of the Scanning Laser
Environmental Airborne Fluorosensor (SLEAF) is ongoing, but is still hampered by many
hardware and software problems. The SLEAF has been integrated into Environment Canada's
DC-3 remote sensing aircraft and was scheduled to undergo a series of test flights to
examine the reliability of the hardware during flight and its ability to withstand
repeated take-off and landings. Due to repeated hardware and software problems the project
has been put on hold indefinitely. |
| Progress |
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Reports |
AK
(130 pages) |
Monitoring of
Plankton Productivity, Migration of Juvenile Salmon, and Oil Pollution using a
Newly-Developed Airborne Fluorescent Sensor, Final Technical Report, Barringer Research
Limited, Rexdale, Ontario Canada, November 1992. also published as Environmental Emergency
Manuscript Report Number EE-142, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, November 1992. |
AQ
 (14 pages)
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Brown, Carl E.,
Fingas, Merv F., Fruhwirth, Mathias, Gamble, R. Lloyd, Oil Spill Remote Sensing: A Brief
Review of Airborne and Satellite Sensors, presented at the SPOT Image 1995 User Group
Meeting, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., August 24-25, 1995. |
| BF
(12 pages) |
Oil Spill Remote
Sensors: New Tools That Provide Solutions to Old Problems, in Proceedings of the
Twenty-First Arctic Marine Oilspill Program Technology Seminar, Environment Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario, pp 783-794, 1998. |
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