Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data has a significant capability to detect oil spill phenomena over oceans' surfaces even in the cloudy season as well. There is a wealth of resource available over the Internet to demonstrate the applicability of SAR data to detect oil spill events. Please refer to the following links:

1) http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/study-evaluates-synthetic-aperture-radar-oil-spill-detection-tool/

2) https://earth.esa.int/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=233928&name=DLFE-2187.pdf

3) http://optics.marine.usf.edu/~hu/scratch/gower/pdf/Oil_spill_review_RSE2005.pdf

4) http://folk.uio.no/anne/olje_art.pdf

5) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311600750037589

6) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4106067&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4106067

In addition to above references, there is a tutorial available at following link of European Space Agency's Learn EO! Project page to monitor marine oil spill pollution using synergistic use of Radar and optical data. Open source software and data are readily available here (user registration may be required).

7) http://www.learn-eo.org/lessons/l2/

Hope this helps.

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data has a significant capability to detect oil spill phenomena over oceans' surfaces even in the cloudy season as well. There is a wealth of resource available over the Internet to demonstrate the applicability of SAR data to detect oil spill events. Please refer to the following links:

1) http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/study-evaluates-synthetic-aperture-radar-oil-spill-detection-tool/

2) https://earth.esa.int/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=233928&name=DLFE-2187.pdf

3) http://optics.marine.usf.edu/~hu/scratch/gower/pdf/Oil_spill_review_RSE2005.pdf

4) http://folk.uio.no/anne/olje_art.pdf

5) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014311600750037589

6) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4106067&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4106067

In addition to above references, there is a tutorial available at following link of European Space Agency's Learn EO! Project page to monitor marine oil spill pollution using synergistic use of Radar and optical data. Open source software and data are readily available here (user registration may be required).

7) http://www.learn-eo.org/lessons/l2/

Hope this helps.

after exporting you oil spill image, you can use arcgis, envi, global mapper, google earth to calculate path, area...

best regards

Dear Jibran and Ridha.

Thank you so much for your useful information.

you are welcome Seyed Amir, cordially

This SAR publication might prove useful to you.

http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~bloch/P6Image/articles/Keramitsoglou-EMS06.pdf

Please read the following papers:

Camilla Brekke, et al. Oil spill detection by satellite remote sensing.Remote Sensing of Environment. 2005, 95:1 - 13.

Fingas, M. and C.E. Brown, Oil Spill Remote Sensing: A Review, Chapter 6, in Oil Spill Sci. Techn., M. Fingas, Editor, Gulf Publishing Company, NY, NY, 111, 2011

Dear Tamara and Chunxiang.

Thank you so much.