Oil Pollution in the Kerch Strait Based on Five-Year Monitoring with Synthetic Aperture Radar: Current Status and Main Sources
Journal: Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Year: 2022

The results of the five-year (2017–2021) monitoring of oil pollution in the Kerch Strait and its prestrait regions are analyzed. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the European Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B satellites, both real-time and archived, representing valuable material for searching, detecting, and studying the character of oil pollution caused by spills of crude oil, petroleum products, and other oily substances, have been used for monitoring. During monitoring, 2597 oil slicks