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Project Number 161
Date of Summary April 5, 2002
Subject Development of a New Generation Laser Fluorosensor
Performing Activity Emergencies Science Division, Environment Canada
Principal Investigator Dr. Merv F. Fingas, Dr. Carl E. Brown
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion September 30, 2001
Description This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) between MMS, Environment Canada, U.S. Coast Guard, Canadian Transportation Development Centre, and the Canadian Petroleum Association to develop the new laser fluorosensor technology for the detection of oil on water, ice and on shorelines. The objectives of this project include: develop the technology of laser fluorosensing for oil spill application including oil on water, on shorelines, among debris, ice or weeds and oil on ice; develop prototype instruments; and test these instruments.

Ground testing of the Scanning Laser Environmental Airborne Fluorosensor (SLEAF) is ongoing, but is still hampered by many hardware and software problems. The SLEAF has been integrated into Environment Canada's DC-3 remote sensing aircraft and was scheduled to undergo a series of test flights to examine the reliability of the hardware during flight and its ability to withstand repeated take-off and landings. Due to repeated hardware and software problems the project has been put on hold indefinitely.
Progress

Reports
AK Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (130 pages) Monitoring of Plankton Productivity, Migration of Juvenile Salmon, and Oil Pollution using a Newly-Developed Airborne Fluorescent Sensor, Final Technical Report, Barringer Research Limited, Rexdale, Ontario Canada, November 1992. also published as Environmental Emergency Manuscript Report Number EE-142, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, November 1992.
AQ File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (14 pages) Brown, Carl E., Fingas, Merv F., Fruhwirth, Mathias, Gamble, R. Lloyd, Oil Spill Remote Sensing: A Brief Review of Airborne and Satellite Sensors, presented at the SPOT Image 1995 User Group Meeting, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., August 24-25, 1995.
BF File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (12 pages) Oil Spill Remote Sensors: New Tools That Provide Solutions to Old Problems, in Proceedings of the Twenty-First Arctic Marine Oilspill Program Technology Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp 783-794, 1998.
 

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