ABSTRACT
This work is a knowledge-based approach of an integrated system including oil spill dispersion modeling in real marine environment with a Geographical Information System (GIS). This approach permits the application of Case Based Reasoning techniques for optimal selection of dispersion models leading to high resolution of (moving) potential oil pollution sources. Such an approach is particularly valuable in the case of an archipelago where the great number of islands, the local sea currents and the wind speed/direction changes contribute to the creation of a heterogeneous distribution of oil spills; under these conditions, knowledge extracted from facing similar pollution cases in the past may offer considerable help for solving present problems.
The implementation of the software developed in a case set in the Aegean Archipelago in East Mediterranean has proven the applicability of this approach in the successful localization of the potential oil-spilling sources.
