title: A dynamical systems perspective for a real-time response to a marine oil spill.
abstract: This paper discusses the combined use of tools from dynamical systems theory and remote sensing techniques and shows how they are effective instruments which may greatly contribute to the decision making protocols of the emergency services for the real-time management of oil spills. This work presents the successful interplay of these techniques for a recent situation, the sinking of the Oleg Naydenov fishing ship that took place in Spain, close to the Canary Islands, in April 2015.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM, C/Nicolás Cabrera 15, Campus Cantoblanco UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: victor.garcia@icmat.es.
authors.forename: V J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: García-Garrido
authors.affiliation: División de Robótica y Oceanografía Computacional, IUSIANI, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM, C/Nicolás Cabrera 15, Campus Cantoblanco UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mancho
authors.affiliation: División de Robótica y Oceanografía Computacional, IUSIANI, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coca
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TW, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wiggins
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D059392:Petroleum Pollution; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000379:methods*; D017215:Satellite Communications; D012767:Ships; D013030:Spain; D013997:Time Factors; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical
keywords: Decision support; Hyperbolic trajectories; Lagrangian descriptors; Oil remote sensing; Oil spill; Regional ocean model