Airborne technologies for mapping and measuring are playing a large part in the response to the Deepwater Horizon’s sinking and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Texas-based TTI Exploration and Florida-based Galileo Group have aircraft monitoring and measuring the effects of the oil spill as BP and Transocean work to contain the leak.
TTI’s natural resource mapping (NRM)and Galileo’s hyperspectral imaging data (HID) will focus on the impact of the oil on the water quality and habitat pollution in the fragile ecosystems on the coast of US.
The NRM system captures high-resolution geographical measurements of rock and fluid properties both above and below the surface.
The data collected is then interpreted by TTI to produce an accurate analysis of how the oil is affecting the environment.
HID uses colours to identify anomalies, as all substances give of a unique spectrum, although these are normally invisible to the human eye, .
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By GlobalDataTTI president and CEO Jim Hollis said the technology was well suited to deliver a single dataset of the oil spill’s affects for governmental, private and non-profit organisations working on the oil clean-up.
