The Emergencies Science Division of Environment Canada recently participated in a series of remote sensing flights over the naturally occurring oil seeps off Santa Barabara, California. During these flights the lLaser environmental Airborne Fluorosensor was operated to test its ability to detect oil in an actual marine environment. This joint project was sponsored by the United States Minearals Management Service and the Emergencies Science Division of Environment Canada. The Santa Barbara area of the California coastiline contains numerous gas and petroleum deposits which are slowly released from fauts under the water and rise to the surface in the form of gas, oil and tar.
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