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- Title
Oil spills distribution in the Middle and Southern Adriatic Sea as a result of intensive ship traffic.
- Authors
MOROVIĆ, Mira; IVANOV, Andrei; OLUIĆ, Marinko; KOVAČ, Žarko; TERLEEVA, Nadezda
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
ADRIATIC Sea; OIL spill booms; MARITIME shipping; SYNTHETIC aperture radar; SHIP traffic control; FISH transportation
- Publication
Acta Adriatica, 2015, Vol 56, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0001-5113
- Publication type
Article