Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-6545-2026
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Building a dataset of offshore oil and gas extraction platforms from satellite data (2017–2023)
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Thanks for this work, try to develop a robust algorithm to generate global offshore oil and gas datasets from satellite observations. The methodology and results look reliable and reasonable. I have several comments for your reference.
1. Fig. 3, why do you only use Sentinel-2 satellite imagers during Jan-Mar for OOGP generation?
2. L155-160, the FIRMS with 1-km spatial resolution, Near-real time frequency was used to identify platform activity status. This is an interesting point and skillful solution. The key challenge is how to address the discrepancy in spatiotemporal resolutions between this fire data and Sentinel-1/2 data (with 10-60 m resolution). Please add more details on this point. For example, how is proximity defined in the proposed approach?
3. L160, as mentioned above, FIRMS has a different spatiotemporal resolution from the primary satellite data (Sentinel-1/2). Please clarify this point.
4. Eq.(1), although two local examples are given to demonstrate the rationale regarding the BCmax threshold of -20db, an adaptive threshold like Eq. (2) is more reliable.
5. Fig. 10, how can we control the effect of the uncertainty in satellite data and algorithm (like threshold selection) on these temporal variations?