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Interactive Spatiotemporal Analysis Of Oil Spills Using Comap In North Dakota, Yong Shin Park, Hamad Al-Qublan, Eunsu Lee, Gokhan Egilmez

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications

The aim of the study is to analyze the oil spill pattern from various types of incidents and contaminants to determine the extent that incident data can be used as a baseline to prevent hazardous material releases and improve response activities at a state level. This study addresses the importance of collecting and sharing oil spill incidents as well as analytics using the data. Temporal, spatial and spatiotemporal analysis techniques are employed for the oil-spill related environmental incidents observed in the state of North Dakota, United States of America, from 2000 to 2014, as a result of the oil boom. …