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Bilge dump automatic alert system in southern Africa oceans

Author: Mdakane, Lizwe W ; Meyer, Rory GV ; Sibolla, Bolelang H Date: Aug 2020 Oil spill over the sea surface formed because of oil-tanker accidents or illegal bilge dumping of tankers can cause significant environmental damage depending on the location and amount. The international legislation contains minor and ... Read more
An evaluation of the endocrine disruptive potential of crude oil water accommodated fractions and crude oil contaminated surface water to freshwater organisms using in vitro and in vivo approaches

Author: Truter, JC ; Van Wyk, JH ; Oberholster, Paul J ; Botha, A-M ; Mokwena, LM Date: May 2017 Knowledge regarding the potential impacts of crude oil on endocrine signaling in freshwater aquatic vertebrates is limited. The expression of selected genes as biomarkers for altered endocrine signaling was studied in African clawed frog, ... Read more
Feature selection and classification of oil spill from vessels using Sentinel-1 wide–swath synthetic aperture radar data

Author: Mdakane, Lizwe W ; Kleynhans, W Date: Oct 2020 Oil spills are often caused by vessels when dumping oily bilge wastewater at sea (also referred to as bilge dumping). In an synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, oil spills dampen the radar energy return and appear as linearly shaped dark ... Read more
An image-segmentation-based framework to detect oil slicks from moving vessels in the Southern African oceans using SAR imagery

Author: Mdakane, Lizwe W ; Kleynhans, Waldo Date: Jun 2017 Oil slick events caused due to bilge leakage/dumps from ships and from other anthropogenic sources pose a threat to the aquatic ecosystem and need to be monitored on a regular basis. An automatic image-segmentation-based framework to detect ... Read more
Marine Pollution - a 1988 perspective

Author: Moldan, AGS ; Ridder, JH Date: 1989 The debate over the degradation of coastal waters by sewage, oil and industrial wastes, continues. To provide a wide-ranging but concise examination of this topic, the Foundation for Research Development of the CSIR organized a one-day public ... Read more

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