In the summer of 1996 the oil barge irving Whale was successfully raised from the depths of the St.Lawrence River with the majority of it's cargo of Bunker C fuel oil intact. As parto of the recovery effort, the Emergeniies Science Division of Enviroment Canada performed airborne remote sensing flights over the s ite of the barge prior to, during and follwing the lift procedure. The primary sensor employed during these remote sensing flights was the Laser environmental Airborne Fluorosensor (LEAF). Additrional equipment on board Environment (Canada's DC-3 aircraft included an RC-10 colour mapping camera and two down-lloking video cameras.
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