NR has more than 20 years of experience with R&D on automatic oil-spill detection, and is one of the pioneers on this subject. The first prototype system for automated detection was developed as part of the national oil spill project and delivered to KSAT in the late 1990s. NR has lead and participated in several other national and international projects for development and testing of methodology for automated oil-spill detection, including the EU FP projects

• ENVISYS (1996 - 2000) (coordinator in the final phase),
• OCEANIDES (2003 - 2005) - Harmonised monitoring, reporting, and assessment of illegal marine oil discharges
• SeaU,  (2011 - 2013) - Multisensor Satellite Technologies for Oil Pollution Monitoring and Source Identification

the ESA projects

• Northern View
• KONSERV (2006 - 2007) - Kongsberg Spacetec Services Integration into the Support Service Environment

and the national projects with KSAT

• SatHavOlje (2007 - 2010)
• MOiSD (2012) - Multi Mission Oil Spill Detection
• GlobOilRisk (2014 - 2016) - Automatic oil spill monitoring and risk alert from satellite data

NR has also worked with oil-spill detection from sensors mounted on oil drilling platforms where NR developed a system for automated detection of oil spills based on a multi-sensor approach

Some publications

Salberg, Arnt Børre; Rudjord, Øystein; Solberg, Anne H Schistad.
Oil spill detection in hybrid-polarimetric SAR images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2014 ;Volum 52(10), pp. 6521-6533. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2297193

Salberg, Arnt Børre; Larsen, Siri Øyen; Zortea, Maciel.
Multisource oil spill detection. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering 2013 ;Volum 8892. DOI: 10.1117/12.2029208

Brekke, Camilla; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir; Salberg, Arnt Børre; Skrunes, Stine; Ermakov, Stanislav; Maurizio, Migliaccio; Holt, Benjamin.
Current Advances in SAR Remote Sensing of Oil Slicks and a Look-Ahead. In Proc. SeaSAR-2012, Tromsø, Norway.

Rudjord, Øystein; Salberg, Arnt Børre.
X-Bragg based detection of oil spills using polarimetric SAR. In Proc. SeaSAR-2012, Tromsø, Norway.

Salberg, Arnt Børre; Rudjord, Øystein; Solberg, Anne H S.
Oil spill detection in compact polarimetry SAR images. In Proc. SeaSAR-2012, Tromsø, Norway.

Salberg, Arnt Børre; Rudjord, Øystein; Solberg, Anne H Schistad.
Model based oil spill detection using polarimetric SAR. I: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International. IEEE Press 2012 ISBN 978-1-4673-1160-1. pp. 5884-5887

Trier, Øivind Due; Huseby, Ragnar Bang.
Near real-time automatic oil spill detection in SAR images. In Proc. 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment

Solberg, Anne Helene Schistad; Brekke, C; Husøy, Per Ove.
Oil spill detection in Radarsat and Envisat SAR images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2007 ;Volum 45.

Solberg, Anne H S; Brekke, Camilla; Solberg, Rune; Husøy, Per Ove.
Algorithms for oil spill detection in Radarsat and ENVISAT SAR images. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium; 2004-09-20 - 2004-09-24

Solberg, Anne H S; Dokken, Sverre Thune; Solberg, Rune.
Automatic detection of oil spills in ENVISAT, Radarsat and ERS SAR images. IGARSS 2003; 2003-07-21 - 2003-07-25

Solberg, Anne H S; Storvik, Geir Olve; Solberg, Rune; Volden, Espen.
Automatic detection of oil spills in ERS SAR images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1999 ;Volum 37(4), pp. 1916-1924