<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>From January 2009 to April 2012 a satellite survey of the central and southeastern parts of the Baltic Sea was carried out by the Space Radar Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The main attention was focused on the detection of oil pollution as well as biogenic and anthropogenic surfactant films. The basic data are high resolution radar images obtained by advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) on board of the Envisat satellite of the European Space Agency. Remotely sensed data in visual and infrared (IR) bands acquired by sensors MERIS Envisat, MODIS-Terra and -Aqua, and AVHRR NOAA nearly simultaneously with the ASAR images, were processed and analysed in order to facilitate the discrimination between different types of surface pollutants, to understand a comprehensive features of meteorological and hydrodynamic processes in the sea area of investigation, and to reveal factors determining pollutants spread and drift. The regions of the most intense oil pollution are outlined.</p></abstract>

From January 2009 to April 2012 a satellite survey of the central and southeastern parts of the Baltic Sea was carried out by the Space Radar Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The main attention was focused on the detection of oil pollution as well as biogenic and anthropogenic surfactant films. The basic data are high resolution radar images obtained by advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) on board of the Envisat satellite of the European Space Agency. Remotely sensed data in visual and infrared (IR) bands acquired by sensors MERIS Envisat, MODIS-Terra and -Aqua, and AVHRR NOAA nearly simultaneously with the ASAR images, were processed and analysed in order to facilitate the discrimination between different types of surface pollutants, to understand a comprehensive features of meteorological and hydrodynamic processes in the sea area of investigation, and to reveal factors determining pollutants spread and drift. The regions of the most intense oil pollution are outlined.

Oil Pollution in the Southeastern Baltic Sea in 2009-2011

Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Profsoyuznaya Str. 84/32

P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Nakhimovsky Pr. 36

S. Yu. Witte Moscow University, Moscow, Russia, Second Kozhukhovsky Pr. 12, Build.1

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From January 2009 to April 2012 a satellite survey of the central and southeastern parts of the Baltic Sea was carried out by the Space Radar Laboratory at the...

Oil Pollution in the Southeastern Baltic Sea in 2009-2011

Published Online: Dec 19, 2014

Page range: 322 - 331

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2014-0029

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.