Remote sensing data has been increasingly used for environmental monitoring in recent years.TheInternational Association of Oil and Gas Producers(IOGP)has recognized this trend and created a TaskForce to develop a document to provide good practices and lessons learned for the oil and gas industry.Theobjective of the document is to provide clear guidance to the environmental professional on how remotesensing may be applied to the range of common use cases encountered across the asset life cycle.The good practice document development and content was informed by peer-reviewed publications,reports and direct input from oil and gas member company examples.A series of seven online and face toface presentations from key groups that develop remote sensing data for environmental monitoring were alsoshared.These included presentations from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA),the European Space Agency(ESA)and the United Nations Environment Program World ConservationMonitoring Centre(WCMC).The scope of the document was defined to include satellite,manned airborneand unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)platforms across a broad range of sensors and spectral wavelengths.The resultant document covers six chapters.Three of the chapters covers the use cases and are delineatedby target application; Land,Marine and Coastal and Atmospheric applications.Each of these chapters arefurther divided into sections with specific applications relevant to the oil and gas industry,including wherein the asset life cycle the application may apply to,potential platforms and sensors,final deliverables andpotential challenges.For example,Habitat Mapping,captured as a subsection under Land applications,isoften completed during development of an asset to define a baseline for specific habitat types.Ongoingmonitoring is also typical after construction,especially if any critical habitats are identified.Remote sensingplatforms used to provide habitat data range from medium to high spatial resolution satellite data through tovery high spatial resolution UAV data.For either satellite or airborne data,the spectral data used for habitatmapping includes visible and infrared data.The remaining three chapters provide a state of knowledge ofenvironmental remote sensing,the business case for the oil and gas industry and how to develop a scopefor an environmental remote sensing project,a review of existing remote sensing platforms and sensorsavailable for environmental monitoring.This paper will provide practical guidance for operators on the current applications of the latest remotesensing technology for environmental monitoring in oil and gas projects; it will include actual industry usecases throughout the asset life cycle and lessons learned,together with good practices for the consideration,acquisition and stewardship of geospatial data.It will serve as a useful link between the environmentalprofessional and remote sensing specialist.
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