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SkyTruth has developed a machine learning model that scans thousands of satellite images a day to identify oil slicks at sea and link slicks with vessel traffic to identify likely polluters. These slicks typically result from illegal bilge dumping, in which vessels release oily bilge water into marine waters offshore.
Oil smoothes the ocean surface, making the Sun’s reflection brighter near the centerline of the path of the satellite, and reducing the scattering of sunlight in other places. As a result, the oil slick is brighter than the surrounding water in some places (image center) and darker than the surrounding water in others (image lower right).
According to the satellite images, the spill directly affected 70,000 sq mi (180,000 km 2) of ocean, comparable to the area of Oklahoma. [4] [49] By early June 2010, oil had washed up on 125 mi (201 km) of Louisiana's coast and along the Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama coastlines.
In response to public interest on the BP (BP) oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a new customizable interactive map of the spill's ...
An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has grown to 1.1 million gallons. Scripps News Staff. November 22, 2023 at 7:04 PM. An oil spill seen in the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 16, 2023.
A tropical storm named Alex has built to the east of the Gulf of Mexico, where oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion has been spewing into the ocean for some two months now. ... hits the oil ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
Workers carry bags of seagrass mixed with tar balls from a beach at St Andrews State Park in Panama City, June 21st, 2010. The tar balls are suspected to be from the BP oils spill in the Gulf of ...