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Oil spills distribution in the Middle and Southern Adriatic Sea as a result of intensive ship traffic

Mira Morović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-1716-4808 ; Institut za oceanografiju i ribarstvo, Split
Andrei Ivanov ; P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Marinko Oluić ; Geo-sat, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Žarko Kovač ; Institut za oceanografiju i ribarstvo, Split
Nadezda Terleeva ; P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia


Puni tekst: engleski pdf 599 Kb

str. 145-156

preuzimanja: 64

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Sažetak

Oil slick detection by synthetic aperture radars (SAR) is a proven and commonly used operational technique, which showed that the seas of the Mediterranean are often polluted by oil and oily products. For the period 2003-2011, the Envisat and Radarsat-1 SAR images were available for analysis, thanks to the several projects. About 300 SAR images have been analysed over the Middle and Southern Adriatic Sea, in order to detect marine oil spills and other phenomena causing similar signatures. Analysing many oil spills detected in the Adriatic Sea, their sizes were determined between 0.1 km2 and 108 km2. Most of the spills were located along the main shipping routes, especially in the ship corridor along the Adriatic Sea axis. They were, most probably deliberate slicks released from ships during transportation or fishing operations, while suspected source of the largest spills is tank washing or illegal discharges.

Ključne riječi

Adriatic Sea; oil pollution; oil spills; SAR Images; geo-information approach

Hrčak ID:

152236

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/152236

Datum izdavanja:

15.12.2015.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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