Comparison between oil spill images and look-alikes: an evaluation of SAR-derived observations of the 2019 oil spill incident along Brazilian waters

Oil Spill on the Brazilian Coast

“…The Special Number consists of seventeen original articles addressing several different topics related to the oil spill event. The articles included studies about remote sensing/numerical modeling of oil slicks (Nobre et al 2022), mapping using Remote Sensing data of the impacted areas and its correlation with socioeconomic typology of the municipalities directly affected (Freire et al 2022), and a technical evaluation of image attributes to support the identifi cation of ocean targets, including oil spills, rain cells, biofi lms, and low wind conditions (Lentini et al 2022). Other articles address chemical analysis of the oil in different compartments and environmental ecosystems to determine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentrations in local biota to assess seafood quality (Hamacher et al 2022), bioaccumulatiuon, bioaccessibility and risk analysis (Melo et al 2022) and also describe the extension of affected coastline and possible origin, indicating that discharges of oil in the open sea occurred more regularly than initially expected (Lobão et al 2022).…”