Table 1 Most frequently used polarimetric parameters in the literature for oil spill detection.

From: Dark spot detection for characterization of marine surface slicks using UAVSAR quad-pol data

Author

Methodology/parameters used

Sensor

36

Entropy and Anisotropy based characterization followed by SVM classification

RADARSAT-2

22

Entropy, Anisotropy, scattering angle, and a combination of these as n new parameter F followed by Otsu segmentation

UAVSAR

37

Entropy (H), Scattering Angle (α), Pedestal Height (PH), Conformity Coefficient,

Degree of Polarization, Std. Co-Polarized Phase Difference, Correlation Coefficient, Coherence Coefficient, Ellipticity

RADARSAT-2

38

Damping ratio and co-polarization ratio

UAVSAR

39

Entropy and damping ratio

RADARSAT-2, TerraSAR-X, UAVSAR

40

Damping ratio

UAVSAR

41

Conformity coefficient for finding out the dominant scattering and discriminating between surface, double-bounce, and volume scattering

RADARSAT-2

42

Copolarization power ratio, Geometric intensity, Copolarization cross product, Standard deviation of co-polarized phase difference, Entropy, Anisotropy

RADARSAT-2