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标题：Tracking of smoke plumes generated by Kuwaiti ’s oil wells fire,using model based image analysis
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作者：ALI AKBAR NOROOZI ; Nader Jalali ; Bahram Aminipouri 等
期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2000
卷号：XXXIII Part B7(/1-4)
页码：1019-1026
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：A study was carried out to assess the relation between the observed environmental damages in Iran during and after 1991, and the environmental contamination caused by the Persian Gulf War in Kuwait. Special attention is given to the use of Remote Sensing (RS) data and Geographic Information System (GIS) methods. Field observations in Iran and the region were used for verification and identification purposes. In this study, 1267 NOAA-AVHRR images from four satellites that were transmitting data during 1991 (NOAA-9, 10, 11 and 12) were used for tracking smoke plumes of Kuwait's oil fires to the coast and territory of Iran. The study concludes that the available data supports the assumption that smoke, soot and black and acid rains from Kuwait reached the territory of Iran. Application of model based image analysis and GIS permitted a quantitative and qualitative estimate of the smoke concentration over the Persian Gulf area. During the peak period of the fires, the wells were emitting about 5,000 tons of greasy soot and smoke daily. It has been reported that there were about 225 smoky days in total during 1991. If we take in average about 4,000 tons of smoke daily (80% of 5,000 tons), then we have: given the accumulated output of the oil well fires of 4,000 tons/day * 225 days = 900000 tones and not considering smoke drifting on the image boundaries. It is estimated that about 0.37 * 900000 = 333000 tones of oil and oil related pollutants were transported by air from the Kuwaiti oil well fires to the territories of Iran, where 0.37 is the integrated smoke density over Iran relative to the integrated smoke density over the whole image. As a conclusion, this study demonstrated how remote sensing and GIS data could be used to track smoke plumes of Kuwait's oil fires of the 1991 Persian Gulf War to the coast and territory of Iran. The results are in part qualitative (inspection of visual patterns) and in part provide quantitative information in conjunction with other data
关键词：Smoke plume; Oil wells fire; Tracking; NOAA-AVHRR; Persian Gulf War