Detection and Analysis of Oil Spill using Image Processing

Abstract

Thousands of oil spills occur every year on offshore oil production platforms. Moreover, ships that crosses rivers to reach the harbor cause spills each year. The current study focuses on IRAQI marine and rivers, especially Al-Bakr, Khor al-Amaya, ABOT oil terminal and SHAT AL-Arab river inside Al Başrah oil terminal. In order to mitigate and manage oil spill impacts, an unmanned aerial vehicle has proven to be a valuable tool in mitigating and managing incidents. To achieve high accuracy, the objective of the current research is to analyze captured images for rivers, identify oil pollution and determine its location. The images were taken from the Iraqi Regional Organization for the Protection, General Company for Ports of Iraq, Iraqi Ministry of Environment and online websites. In the current paper is presented a software framework for detecting oil spills, pollution in rivers and other kinds of garbage. The framework based on artificial intelligence is divided into two parts: a training model and an operational model. In the training model part, a machine learning model is applied, which is one of the fastest and most accurate methods, integrated inside PipelineMLML. Thus, the object detection technique used can identify one or more categories of objects in a picture or video. Furthermore, the locations of objects can be identified with the help of neural networks. In the operational mode, models can identify oil spills in images.