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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Envisat ASAR Image, June 21, 2010
With its ability to penetrate clouds and haze, this radar image taken by the ASAR instrument on the Envisat satellite illustrates the usefulness of radar imagery for oil pollution detection and mapping. Oil slicks and sheen from the ongoing BP / Deepwater Horizon spill - patchy in places - are spread across an area of 26,053 square miles (67,476 km2) in the northeast Gulf of Mexico. The western edge of the area of slicks and sheen extends beyond the left side of the radar image.
Radar image was taken at 03:48 UTC (10:48 pm June 21 local time).
The backdrop for this black-and-white radar image is a MODIS/Aqua image taken the next day (June 22).
ASAR image courtesy CSTARS.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Envisat ASAR Image, June 21, 2010
With its ability to penetrate clouds and haze, this radar image taken by the ASAR instrument on the Envisat satellite illustrates the usefulness of radar imagery for oil pollution detection and mapping. Oil slicks and sheen from the ongoing BP / Deepwater Horizon spill - patchy in places - are spread across an area of 26,053 square miles (67,476 km2) in the northeast Gulf of Mexico. The western edge of the area of slicks and sheen extends beyond the left side of the radar image.
Radar image was taken at 03:48 UTC (10:48 pm June 21 local time).
The backdrop for this black-and-white radar image is a MODIS/Aqua image taken the next day (June 22).
ASAR image courtesy CSTARS.