Webinar: Detecting Global Ocean Oil Pollution With Cerulean

Описание: Ocean oil pollution can have devastating impacts on marine ecosystems and the coastal communities that depend on them. SkyTruth's Cerulean is a new system that monitors the global ocean for oil pollution by detecting oil slicks in satellite imagery, and identifying nearby vessels and offshore oil and gas infrastructure as the potential source of those slicks.

Cerulean can support climate and marine conservation organizations, journalists, enforcement agencies, and individuals or agencies that want to protect their waters from oil pollution. Users can find potential slicks on a simple, map-based interface and generate reports showing likely sources of observed pollution, or use Cerulean’s API to integrate pollution data into their own maritime observation platforms.

In addition to this incident-focused work, Cerulean is also starting to provide a broader picture of chronic oil pollution globally – the initial six-month pilot suggested that ships may be dumping more than 1.8 million barrels of oil per year into the ocean. This webinar, originally hosted in November 2024, presents Cerulean, how to use it, and early results on global hotspots for vessel and infrastructure oil slicks.

Try Cerulean for yourself: https://skytruth.org/cerulean/

0:00 Housekeeping
2:23 Intro
3:19 About SkyTruth
4:07 Chronic Oil Pollution
5:51 Demonstration
25:35 Impact
32:27 Shadow Fleet Investigation
35:57 Q&A
56:57 Wrap-up

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