SAR imagery and Seatrack Web as decision making tools for illegal oil spill combating — a case study

Decision support system for emergency management of oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Sea

“…As Fig. 11a, d indicate, the shape of the highest surface hazard area followed the climatological shape of the Western Adriatic Coastal Current (Artegiani et al, 1997;Oddo et al, 2005). The same feature was found on the hazard maps for the dispersed fraction of the oil, but for a lower level of hazards ( Fig.…”

“…Information about a hypothetical oil spill An oil spill forecast was carried out by means of the ECMWF and MFS meteo-oceanographic datasets. The corresponding field of sea surface currents, underlying the area of the accident, indicated that initially, the spill was located in the region of relatively weak currents at the periphery of the South Adriatic Gyre (Artegiani et al, 1997). The sea surface current field presented in Fig.…”

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“…Information about a hypothetical oil spill S. Liubartseva et al: Decision support system for emergency management of oil spill accidents An oil spill forecast was carried out by means of the ECMWF and MFS meteo-oceanographic datasets. The corresponding field of sea surface currents, underlying the area of the accident, indicated that initially, the spill was located in the region of relatively weak currents at the periphery of the South Adriatic Gyre (Artegiani et al, 1997). The sea surface current field presented in Fig.…”

Decision support system for emergency management of oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Sea

“…The system was applied to evaluate the shortand mid-term consequences of the Prestige case (Spain, November 2002). A combination of SAR (synthetic aperture radar) imagery, aerial surveillance, and oil spill modeling by Seatrack Web (Ambjorn, 2007) was used to make appropriate decisions on oil combating activities in the Baltic and North seas (Anderson et al, 2010).…”