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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, 2025, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 327-335

Satellite monitoring of the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait area on December 15, 2024: Preliminary results

O.Yu. Lavrova 1 , E.A. Loupian 1 , A.G. Kostianoy 2, 3, 4 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
2 P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia
3 Moscow Witte University, Moscow, Russia
4 Maykop State Technological University, Maykop, Russia
Accepted: 22.02.2025
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2025-22-1-327-335
The article presents the first results of satellite monitoring of oil pollution in the waters and coastal zone of Krasnodar Krai and Crimea that occurred because of the breakup of two tankers near the Kerch Strait during a storm on December 15, 2024. The monitoring was carried out using Sentinel-1A SAR-C (Synthetic Aperture Radar, C-band) radar images of the sea surface along with Sentinel-2 MSI (Multispectral Instrument) and Landsat-8, -9 OLI (Operational Land Imager) cloudless images in visible range. Spatial resolution of the satellite data was 10–30 m, which made it possible to identify even small areas of oil pollution. The results obtained allow us to state that in the first two weeks after the accident, a strong westerly wind, which changed from southwest to northwest and vice versa several times, fanned out fuel oil pollution along the entire coast from the port of Taman to Anapa and even Utrish.
Keywords: tanker accident, satellite monitoring, satellite images, SAR data, SAR-C Sentinel-1, Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait
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