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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2015, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 130-149

Satellite monitoring of oil pollution of the sea surface

M.I. Mityagina 1 , O.Yu. Lavrova 1 , T.Yu. Bocharova 1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
The paper summarizes results obtained in the course of multiyear satellite monitoring of oil pollution in the sea. An integrated approach to detection and spreading forecast of oil pollution is based on joint analysis of various data of satellite remote sensing of the sea surface.
Analysis of a large databank produced consolidated and statistically reliable results on spatial and temporal manifestation variations of film pollution of different types in radar images of the sea surface. Areas worst affected by oil pollution were revealed. Satellite observations of sea surface films, including oil, were classified. The greatest part of anthropological pollution of the sea surface in the Baltic and Black Seas detected during our monitoring activities is accidental spills and deliberate discharges of liquid oil products along the main ship routes. The largest source of surface pollution in the central Caspian Sea is oil coming from production, prospecting, submarine well repair works, accidental pipeline breaks, pipeline cleaning, etc. Of particular interest in this paper are natural hydrocarbon seeps on the bottoms of the Black and Caspian Seas as manifested in satellite data.
Keywords: satellite radar images, satellite monitoring, sea surface, oil pollution, Russian seas, natural hydrocarbon seeps
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