The results show the tidal current components have effects on the oil spills spreading. The northward tidal current components are effected the length of the oil spills while the eastward components are effected the width of oil spills. In conclusion, Radarsat data has good potential for oil spills detection and mapping. Radarsat data could be used to model the tidal speeds and their effects on oil spill patterns. The tidal current components are in good correlation with oil spill lengths and widths.
Introduction Modeling of oil spills movements by remote sensing is in early stage of investigation.
Up to now the scientists could not be used the full capability of remote sensing techniques for modelling and predicting oil spill movements. Using remote sensing techniques for oil spill detection was just focused on the improvement of detection algorithms. As the ships created a turbulent area along the oil spill tracks. This is because of the fact that tidal current movements considered significant in narrow waterway such as the Malacca Straits, which is a near 12 hourly sinusoidal phenomenon arising from the semi-diurnal motion of the M2 and S2 tidal components. This means that fractal dimension can be characterized by a random-phase Fourier description in the form of power density.