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Adriano de O. Vasconcelos, D.Sc.
+55 (21) 3938-0229
adriano@lamce.coppe.ufrj.br
Welcome to the Center for Radar Remote Sensing Applied to the Oil Industry.
Through our team, LAMCE develops Research, Consultancy and Training projects for the oil industry, targeting public and private companies and government institutions.
Advances in Earth observation technologies and the search for new exploratory frontiers in deep and ultra-deep waters provide unprecedented perspectives in the technical and scientific approach to natural environments, thus allowing the state of the art of knowledge to be surpassed. In this context, the Remote Sensing Core stands out for integrating researchers with different expertise in a multidisciplinary cooperation to work on the most varied research projects for various companies.
In the context of oil and gas, the knowledge acquired over decades of work, the information and the products generated at the Laboratory are of great importance, not only to the bodies responsible for environmental management, but also as a boundary condition for the computational modeling of oil generation and migration processes. These results add value to oil industry projects carried out on offshore exploratory frontiers, as well as potential preventive actions and the sizing of response structures in the event of emergency oil spills at sea.
Still in the environmental sphere, the Core carries out research into the characterization of land use and land cover, as well as consultancy for the use of oil resources existing in sedimentary basins, with a view to sustainability and social responsibility. It also participates in technological initiatives, such as the digital transformation in geosciences with the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence), with the aim of reducing subjectivity and increasing accuracy in differentiating the origin of oil slicks in the sea (natural/exudations vs. anthropogenic/spills).
Highlights
The activities of this line of research are
carried out at LAMCE through the Center
for Radar Remote Sensing Applied to the
Petroleum Industry, which is an academic
partnership between COPPE/UFRJ and
Petrobras, within the scope of the
Geochemistry Thematic Network.
The work is being coordinated by Adriano
de Oliveira Vasconcelos, under the scientific
supervision of
Dr. Fernando Pellon de
Miranda.
Lines of research
The studies carried out at the Remote Sensing Core are aimed at detecting oil exudations in oceanic regions, indicative of the presence of active oil systems, as well as establishing their tectonic and environmental context and their repetitiveness over time. Topics related to the energy transition are also of interest, which are:
Digital processing and interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images;
Geoprocessing;
Data Science;
Analysis by Dynamic Fractal Dimension and Lagged State Space Diagrams of oil features;
Machine Learning techniques for differentiating oil features;
Data Visualization on Digital Platforms;
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), with a focus on Data Mining
Using SAR images to extract wind fields for assessing wind energy potential in offshore regions;
Mapping the potential for Natural Hydrogen exudations based on multispectral orbital images.
Tuition
Subject and course taught
One of the most important tasks of the Remote Sensing Core is to promote the training of specialized labor at postgraduate and training level, as a response to the growing demand from Brazilian society for trained professionals to face the growing challenges of the country's oil industry. Thus, the Center offers teaching activities in the course CPC887 (Radar Remote Sensing Applied to Offshore Petroleum Systems), offered in the PEC postgraduate program, with the aim of presenting procedures for digital processing and interpretation of remote sensing data, with an emphasis on synthetic aperture radar (SAR), for the identification of active petroleum systems in offshore exploratory frontiers.
As an example of training, the Center promoted the Basic Remote Sensing course, taught to CGEM - the Navy's Electronic Warfare Center, with the aim of providing Brazilian Navy professionals with an understanding and application of remote sensing concepts in the activities of Image Analysis Applied to Operational Intelligence. The environments covered included oceanic and coastal regions and inland waters of the Amazon. The course focused on the interpretation of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images for (1) identifying targets on the sea surface and (2) mapping flooded landscape units linked to hydrological changes in tropical rainforest regions and their seasonal characterization. In addition, high-resolution optical images were used to detect changes in sensitive coastal regions such as mangroves.
It is also worth noting that for two years (2008-2009) there was an exchange program at the Remote Sensing Core for undergraduate students from the Petroleum Engineering and Environmental Engineering courses, through the CAPES-FIPSE Consortium between the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Federal University of Amazonas, the University of Florida and Washington and Lee University.
History
The Remote Sensing Core has extensive experience in the use of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images and methodologies for detecting, differentiating and monitoring oil features at sea.
2023
In the current year of 2023, the Remote Sensing Core, in partnership with INPE and other research centers, will begin a project to develop a system for detecting, predicting and monitoring oil spills at sea, called SISMOM, whose objective will be to provide scientific information that will make up the oil spill surveillance system in Brazil's coastal zones. This system will use AI on a georeferenced information base with satellite images and numerical forecasts of the ocean and atmosphere to detect oil slicks off the coast of Brazil.
2020 - 2022
Between 2020 and 2022, a Research and Development project contracted by Petrobras compiled all the initiatives carried out in more than two decades of study, within the scope of the Remote Sensing Core, constituting a Mega Collection of attributes and products from RADARSAT images for exudations and oil spills on the sea surface. This project was consolidated with the creation of a digital platform called Oil Slick Hub, designed to promote the organization and efficient access to a huge database of radar images, oil features and reports from exploration and environmental monitoring projects in ocean regions.
2018 - 2020
In addition, in 2018, in partnership with the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), a project was carried out with the Queiroz Galvão company which consisted of the digital manipulation of spatial information and the creation of dynamic models of environmental sensitivity of coastal areas exposed to possible impacts related to oil industry activities.
Another part of the Laboratory was a consultancy project carried out between 2018 and 2020 for EPE (Energy Research Company), in partnership with the Piatam Consortium, for an Environmental Study of the Solimões Sedimentary Area (EAAS), the aim of which was to support the planning of oil and natural gas policies in the aforementioned basin and present recommendations for exploiting the resources in the best possible way from an environmental and social point of view.
2000 - 2012
It is also worth highlighting a strategic partnership with Pemex, carried out from 2000 to 2012, in which the monitoring of oil exploration and production activities in the Bay of Campeche, in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico, with emphasis on the Cantarell oil seep (the largest in the world). The geochemical analysis of the oil samples collected in the region of the ooze was carried out at the UFRJ Chemistry Institute.
In addition, the Remote Sensing Core is concerned with carrying out research of the sensitivity of terrestrial and aquatic biomes to possible environmental impacts resulting from oil industry activities. These studies also use methods for analyzing and mining spatial data using geostatistical and fuzzy logic techniques.
2000 - 2009
Projects of this nature were developed for Petrobras in partnership with various scientific institutions in the Amazon (UFAM, INPA and UFPA, among others) between 2000 and 2009, with emphasis on the socio-environmental monitoring initiatives in the context of PIATAM and PIATAM MAR.
1995
Since 1995, with the launch of the RADARSAT-1 satellite, the Laboratory has worked on various projects to detect oil features at sea in offshore basins abroad (Yemen, Somalia, Angola, Tanzania and Nigeria), as well as in regions of the Brazilian continental margin, including the Pelotas, Santos, Campos, Espírito Santo, Cumuruxatiba, Jequitinhonha, Camamu-Almada, Jacuípe, Sergipe-Alagoas, Pernambuco-Paraíba, Potiguar, Barreirinhas and Foz do Amazonas basins. The focus of the studies ranged from specific exploratory projects in a sedimentary basin to vast oceanic regions in preparation for the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum (ANP) block auctions.
Projects
Specific projects for satellite detection of oil seeps were carried out for Petrobras in exploration blocks in the Foz do Amazonas, Barreirinhas, Potiguar, Pernambuco-Paraíba, Sergipe-Alagoas, Jacuípe, Camamu-Almada, Jequitinhonha, Cumuruxatiba, Espírito Santo, Santos, Campos and Pelotas basins.
Abroad, marine sedimentary areas were investigated in Nigeria, Angola, Tanzania and the Gulf of Aden (Yemen and Somalia). It is also worth highlighting a strategic partnership with Pemex, in the context of which oil exploration and production activities were monitored from 2000 to 2012 in the Bay of Campeche, in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico, with emphasis on the Cantarell oil seep (the largest in the world).
The geochemical analyses of the oil samples collected in the region of the ooze were carried out at the UFRJ Chemistry Institute, under the coordination of Professor Celeste Yara dos Santos Siqueira.
In addition, the Remote Sensing Core conducts research into the sensitivity of terrestrial and aquatic biomes to possible environmental impacts resulting from oil industry activities. These studies also use methods for analyzing and mining spatial data using geostatistical and fuzzy logic techniques.
Projects of this nature have been developed with Petrobras in partnership with various scientific institutions in the Amazon (UFAM, INPA and UFPA, among others), especially the socio-environmental monitoring initiatives in the context of PIATAM and PIATAM MAR.
Furthermore, in partnership with UFBA, a project is being carried out with Queiroz Galvão which consists in the digital manipulation of spatial information and the creation of dynamic models of the environmental sensitivity of coastal areas exposed to possible impacts related to oil industry activities.
Remote Sensing
Oil slicks detecting in the marine environment,
Monitoring oil activities.
Welcome to the Center for Radar Remote Sensing Applied to the Oil Industry.
Through our team, LAMCE develops Research, Consultancy and Training projects for the oil industry, targeting public and private companies and government institutions.
Technical Coordination
Advances in Earth observation technologies and the search for new exploratory frontiers in deep and ultra-deep waters provide unprecedented perspectives in the technical and scientific approach to natural environments, thus allowing the state of the art of knowledge to be surpassed. In this context, the Remote Sensing Core stands out for integrating researchers with different expertise in a multidisciplinary cooperation to work on the most varied research projects for various companies.
In the context of oil and gas, the knowledge acquired over decades of work, the information and the products generated at the Laboratory are of great importance, not only to the bodies responsible for environmental management, but also as a boundary condition for the computational modeling of oil generation and migration processes. These results add value to oil industry projects carried out on offshore exploratory frontiers, as well as potential preventive actions and the sizing of response structures in the event of emergency oil spills at sea.
Still in the environmental sphere, the Core carries out research into the characterization of land use and land cover, as well as consultancy for the use of oil resources existing in sedimentary basins, with a view to sustainability and social responsibility. It also participates in technological initiatives, such as the digital transformation in geosciences with the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence), with the aim of reducing subjectivity and increasing accuracy in differentiating the origin of oil slicks in the sea (natural/exudations vs. anthropogenic/spills).
Highlights
Among the areas of concentration of the Civil Engineering Program (PEC) at COPPE/UFRJ is the topic "Oil and Gas". The lines of research it covers include "Remote Sensing by Radar Oriented to the Oil Industry".
The activities of this line of research are carried out at LAMCE through the Center for Radar Remote Sensing Applied to the Petroleum Industry, which is an academic partnership between COPPE/UFRJ and Petrobras, within the scope of the Geochemistry Thematic Network.
The work is being coordinated by Adriano de Oliveira Vasconcelos, under the scientific supervision of Dr. Fernando Pellon de Miranda.
Lines of research
The studies carried out at the Remote Sensing Core are aimed at detecting oil exudations in oceanic regions, indicative of the presence of active oil systems, as well as establishing their tectonic and environmental context and their repetitiveness over time. Topics related to the energy transition are also of interest, which are:
Digital processing and interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images;
Geoprocessing;
Data Science;
Analysis by Dynamic Fractal Dimension and Lagged State Space Diagrams of oil features;
Machine Learning techniques for differentiating oil features;
Data Visualization on Digital Platforms;
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), with a focus on Data Mining
Using SAR images to extract wind fields for assessing wind energy potential in offshore regions;
Mapping the potential for Natural Hydrogen exudations based on multispectral orbital images.
Tuition
Tuition
Promote scientific development through graduate programs and undergraduate student exchanges.
Read more
Subject and course taught
One of the most important tasks of the Remote Sensing Core is to promote the training of specialized labor at postgraduate and training level, as a response to the growing demand from Brazilian society for trained professionals to face the growing challenges of the country's oil industry. Thus, the Center offers teaching activities in the course CPC887 (Radar Remote Sensing Applied to Offshore Petroleum Systems), offered in the PEC postgraduate program, with the aim of presenting procedures for digital processing and interpretation of remote sensing data, with an emphasis on synthetic aperture radar (SAR), for the identification of active petroleum systems in offshore exploratory frontiers.
As an example of training, the Center promoted the Basic Remote Sensing course, taught to CGEM - the Navy's Electronic Warfare Center, with the aim of providing Brazilian Navy professionals with an understanding and application of remote sensing concepts in the activities of Image Analysis Applied to Operational Intelligence. The environments covered included oceanic and coastal regions and inland waters of the Amazon. The course focused on the interpretation of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images for (1) identifying targets on the sea surface and (2) mapping flooded landscape units linked to hydrological changes in tropical rainforest regions and their seasonal characterization. In addition, high-resolution optical images were used to detect changes in sensitive coastal regions such as mangroves.
It is also worth noting that for two years (2008-2009) there was an exchange program at the Remote Sensing Core for undergraduate students from the Petroleum Engineering and Environmental Engineering courses, through the CAPES-FIPSE Consortium between the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Federal University of Amazonas, the University of Florida and Washington and Lee University.
History
The Remote Sensing Core has extensive experience in the use of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images and methodologies for detecting, differentiating and monitoring oil features at sea.
2023
In the current year of 2023, the Remote Sensing Core, in partnership with INPE and other research centers, will begin a project to develop a system for detecting, predicting and monitoring oil spills at sea, called SISMOM, whose objective will be to provide scientific information that will make up the oil spill surveillance system in Brazil's coastal zones. This system will use AI on a georeferenced information base with satellite images and numerical forecasts of the ocean and atmosphere to detect oil slicks off the coast of Brazil.
2020 - 2022
Between 2020 and 2022, a Research and Development project contracted by Petrobras compiled all the initiatives carried out in more than two decades of study, within the scope of the Remote Sensing Core, constituting a Mega Collection of attributes and products from RADARSAT images for exudations and oil spills on the sea surface. This project was consolidated with the creation of a digital platform called Oil Slick Hub, designed to promote the organization and efficient access to a huge database of radar images, oil features and reports from exploration and environmental monitoring projects in ocean regions.
2018 - 2020
In addition, in 2018, in partnership with the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), a project was carried out with the Queiroz Galvão company which consisted of the digital manipulation of spatial information and the creation of dynamic models of environmental sensitivity of coastal areas exposed to possible impacts related to oil industry activities.
Another part of the Laboratory was a consultancy project carried out between 2018 and 2020 for EPE (Energy Research Company), in partnership with the Piatam Consortium, for an Environmental Study of the Solimões Sedimentary Area (EAAS), the aim of which was to support the planning of oil and natural gas policies in the aforementioned basin and present recommendations for exploiting the resources in the best possible way from an environmental and social point of view.
2000 - 2012
It is also worth highlighting a strategic partnership with Pemex, carried out from 2000 to 2012, in which the monitoring of oil exploration and production activities in the Bay of Campeche, in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico, with emphasis on the Cantarell oil seep (the largest in the world). The geochemical analysis of the oil samples collected in the region of the ooze was carried out at the UFRJ Chemistry Institute.
In addition, the Remote Sensing Core is concerned with carrying out research of the sensitivity of terrestrial and aquatic biomes to possible environmental impacts resulting from oil industry activities. These studies also use methods for analyzing and mining spatial data using geostatistical and fuzzy logic techniques.
2000 - 2009
Projects of this nature were developed for Petrobras in partnership with various scientific institutions in the Amazon (UFAM, INPA and UFPA, among others) between 2000 and 2009, with emphasis on the socio-environmental monitoring initiatives in the context of PIATAM and PIATAM MAR.
1995
Since 1995, with the launch of the RADARSAT-1 satellite, the Laboratory has worked on various projects to detect oil features at sea in offshore basins abroad (Yemen, Somalia, Angola, Tanzania and Nigeria), as well as in regions of the Brazilian continental margin, including the Pelotas, Santos, Campos, Espírito Santo, Cumuruxatiba, Jequitinhonha, Camamu-Almada, Jacuípe, Sergipe-Alagoas, Pernambuco-Paraíba, Potiguar, Barreirinhas and Foz do Amazonas basins. The focus of the studies ranged from specific exploratory projects in a sedimentary basin to vast oceanic regions in preparation for the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum (ANP) block auctions.
Projects
Specific projects for satellite detection of oil seeps were carried out for Petrobras in exploration blocks in the Foz do Amazonas, Barreirinhas, Potiguar, Pernambuco-Paraíba, Sergipe-Alagoas, Jacuípe, Camamu-Almada, Jequitinhonha, Cumuruxatiba, Espírito Santo, Santos, Campos and Pelotas basins.
Abroad, marine sedimentary areas were investigated in Nigeria, Angola, Tanzania and the Gulf of Aden (Yemen and Somalia). It is also worth highlighting a strategic partnership with Pemex, in the context of which oil exploration and production activities were monitored from 2000 to 2012 in the Bay of Campeche, in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico, with emphasis on the Cantarell oil seep (the largest in the world).
The geochemical analyses of the oil samples collected in the region of the ooze were carried out at the UFRJ Chemistry Institute, under the coordination of Professor Celeste Yara dos Santos Siqueira.
In addition, the Remote Sensing Core conducts research into the sensitivity of terrestrial and aquatic biomes to possible environmental impacts resulting from oil industry activities. These studies also use methods for analyzing and mining spatial data using geostatistical techniques and fuzzy logic.
Projects of this nature have been developed with Petrobras in partnership with various scientific institutions in the Amazon (UFAM, INPA and UFPA, among others), especially the socio-environmental monitoring initiatives in the context of PIATAM and PIATAM MAR.
Furthermore, in partnership with UFBA, a project is being carried out with Queiroz Galvão which consists in the digital manipulation of spatial information and the creation of dynamic models of environmental sensitivity of coastal areas exposed to possible impacts related to oil industry activities.
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