The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Dept. Marine Nature Conservation, is responsible for nature conservation in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Tasks include the selection and administration of marine reserves and the marine monitoring. The information collected and processed by the BfN must be provided internally and publicly, as well as for the MDI.DE and EU Guidelines...

The performance tradeoffs of a smallsat synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for maritime surveillance in the coastal waters New Zealand are investigated. lower costs platforms allow constellation SAR satellites that can be launched from using an existing local launch service provider. minimum image quality necessary to achieve desired detection is determined X-band satellite data. specified t...

This article shows the probabilistic modeling of hydrocarbon spills on surface sea, using climatology data oil spill trajectories yielded by applying lagrangian model PETROMAR-3D. To achieve this goal, several computing and statistical tools were used to develop solution based in methodology Guo. Solution was implemented a databases approach SQL language. A case study is presented which hypothe...