TY - CONF
TI - Mapping Benthic Habitat Conditions and Seafloor Deposits Using Sediment Profile Imaging and a Semiautomated Image Processing System
AU - Revelas, E
AU - Sackmann, B
AU - Thurlow, A
AU - Jones, C
T2 - Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2019
AB - Sediment profile imaging (SPI) technology characterizes in situ physical, geochemical, and biological seafloor features. SPI was required by Mexico’s Agency for Safety, Energy, and Environment in 2017 for environmental baseline surveys (EBS) of oil lease blocks in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Because of its ability to provide information on benthic community health and the distribution of very thin (down to the centimeter scale) layers of deposited materials, SPI technology is highly effective for mapping drill cuttings or drilling muds released around wellheads during exploration or production and documenting their ecological impacts. SPI technology has not been widely used in the oil and gas industry for EBS or other monitoring activities. A primary objective of this work is to improve the transparency and consistency of the SPI data generation and data management process.
DA - 2019/04//
PY - 2019
SP - 15
PB - OnePetro 
UR - https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/OTC-28878-MS
LA - English
KW - Marine Energy
KW - Physical Environment
ER -