Aerial Surveillance is one of initial response options and used as an information to base decisions for oil spill response operation. Aerial surveillance can use aerial equipment such as helicopter, drone, fix-wing and survey aircraft.

This training course gives you knowledge, experience and ability to perform aerial surveillance for assessing location of spill, oil spill spreading and verifying oil spill movement in waters as well. The information will be used as incident command to determine response priority and shoreline cleanup resources. 

Figure Aerial Surveillance Method

Aerial Photography of Balikpapan Oil Spill (2018)

Figure Aerial Surveillance Vehicles (a) Helicopter (b) Drone