ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2016, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 277-281

The unprecedented case of sea surface oil pollution from a ship in the South-Eastern Baltic Sea on 23 July 2016

A.G. Kostianoy 1, 2 , E.V. Bulycheva 3 , O.Yu. Lavrova 4 , M.I. Mityagina 4 , T.Yu. Bocharova 4 , D.M. Soloviev 5 , A.M. Sirota 1 
1 P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia
2 S.Yu. Witte Moscow University, Moscow , Russia
3 Atlantic Branch of P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Kaliningrad, Russia
4 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
5 Marine Hydrophysical Institute RAS, Sevastopol, Russia
Accepted: 28.08.2016
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2016-13-4-277-281
We discuss a case of oil pollution from a moving ship detected in a Sentinel-1A radar image on 23 July 2016 in the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea. The use of the operational numerical model Seatrack Web (SMHI, HELCOM) with the integrated Automatic Identification System of ships (AIS) enabled to reliably establish the ship from which the discharge has occurred. AIS system showed that the ship had sailed from Gdynia (Poland) to open sea deliberately to discharge the oily water. The trajectory of the ship movement and the oil spill (64.97 km in length) almost coincided, moreover the position of the ship in radar image corresponded exactly to its coordinates in the AIS system. After the discharge, on the way back the ship made several straight tacks and returned to Gdynia.
Keywords: Baltic Sea, satellite monitoring, radar imagery, oil pollution, oil discharge from a ship, Seatrack Web model, AIS
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