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we're using radar to try to characterize

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oil within an oil slick what we want to

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do is to tell where's the thickest oil

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because most of the oil is in that thick

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layer and that's the part that they can

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take remediation equipment and get rid

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of the most harmful oil in the

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the radar called the uavsar hangs in a

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pod below

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i fly with the aircraft in the radar and

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look at the images as they're being

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collected i mean the aircraft flies this

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path and the radar collects an image

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swath that's about maybe 12 miles wide

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okay ready

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we have a drone that makes

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multi-spectral measurements from which

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we can derive

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thickness we have a sampler we actually

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put in the water that can measure oil

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thickness and kathleen's flying on the

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uav star so we have multiple layers of

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going up to verify our data and then

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translate it

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okay so right now we are we're

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flying a

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survey mission with a multi-spectral

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sensor so we are going to generate a map

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of this oil

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very thick actionable oil so we're gonna

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now we're getting ready to take a tube

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sample which is a direct measurement of

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the thickness of the oil thicker oil is

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what lasts the longest in the

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environment and does the most damage to

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marine life and the physical environment

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and that's the oil that the responders

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focus on in their cleanup

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the more we know about situations the

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better and having a ship right by santa

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barbara kind of made it easy and natural

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that the black thing would get to be

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involved in this kind of mission and

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it's just a great partnership between

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the coast guard and noaa we hope it

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continues to to grow and we're excited

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to be a part of that uavsar is a

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prototype for an upcoming nasa mission

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called nysar and so the methods that we

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develop here we can try to apply them to

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the data that we get from that

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instrument one of the things that makes

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this this whole thing possible and makes

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it impactful is that noah is so heavily

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involved in this they're actually

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leading this and the end game is to

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develop a way for noah

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to use this kind of remote sensing and

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automatically tell where the thicker oil

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is not just detect that they have a

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slick but that it's the thick part of

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the slick nasa partnering with noaa we