This study is concerned with the need for remote sensing techniques for the monitoring of oil-slick pollution on sea surfaces and the effects of oil-slick pollution on the sea. We used Daqing crude oil, Jilin crude oil, heavy oil and seawater from Dalian Bay to simulate oil-slick pollution on the sea surface and obtained multi-angle hyperspectral polarized reflectance information, from which we calculated the polarization for different kinds of crude oil, and oil-slicks of different thicknesses. By comparing the degree of polarization between oil-slicks of different thickness, and sea water, it was found that in the case of thin oil-slicks, the degree of polarization of seawater is higher than that of oil slicks with wavelengths of between 400-1000 nm. However, there was little difference at a wavelength of 785 nm. At angles of incident of 20° and 30° (the viewing angle equals the incident angle), it was easy to distinguish the changes of oil-slick thickness by the degree of polarization at 785 and 880 nm in the near-infrared band. The crude oil showed its inherent polarized characteristic as the oil-slick thickness increased to a certain degree. That is to say, the polarization of the seawater was higher than that of the oil-slick in the visible light range, but less than that in the near-infrared band. As the incident angle changed from 40° to 50°, the degree of polarization of seawater increased, and it was higher than that for the oil-sick between wavelengths of 400-1000 nm at an angle of incidence of 50°. This research on the polarized characteristics of an oil-slick on a sea surface brings new scientific techniques to the monitoring of sea-surface pollution by remote sensing. Oil from offshore spills is one of the common marine pollutants; it causes serious pollution of the marine environment and has harmful effects on marine life. Oil spills on the sea surface can obstruct the ocean-atmosphere heat exchange and influence the absorption, transmission and reflection of light waves by the sea surface [1]. When vast areas of the sea surface have been polluted, we can use remote sensing technology to do a real time, high speed, macro monitoring of the polluted regions. Studies on the condition and process of oil spills on sea surfaces are the subject of much attention worldwide [2][3][4].With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, researchers are focusing on using hyperspectral remote-*Corresponding authors

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