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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2021, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 309-314

Oil pollution of the Vistula Spit beach as a result of oil discharge from ship at the outer anchorage of the port of Kaliningrad in July 2019

E.V. Krek 1 , O.Yu. Lavrova 2 , A.V. Krek 1 
1 Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia
2 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Accepted: 21.04.2021
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2021-18-2-309-314
As a result of an accidental spill of fuel oil from the Indiga tanker, which was performing bunkering on the outer anchorage of the port of Kaliningrad on July 17, 2019, the beach of the Baltic Spit was contaminated with fuel oil. Operational tracking of the spill movement was carried out from the vessels of the Kaliningrad branch of “Morspasluzhba”. A backward model simulation of the spill from the coast of the Baltic Spit using Seatrack Web (HELCOM) showed that the source of oil pollution of the Baltic Spit beach was on the outer anchorage of the port of Kaliningrad. A comb-shaped oil spill was detected in Sentinel-2A (MSI) satellite image, acquired 4 hours 50 minutes after the spill. The position of the spill on the satellite image coincided with the ship’s observations of the spill’s movement from the source of the oil spill.
Keywords: Baltic Sea, outer anchorage of the port of Kaliningrad, oil pollution, satellite monitoring, oil discharge from a ship, Seatrack Web
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