10 days highlighting oil spills in Guinea Gulf

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 19 October 2017 from 04:51:58 to 04:52:23 UTC
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Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 29 October 2017 from 18:15:55 to 18:16:49 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Ocean monitoring, marine environment, pollution, oil spills, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, DRC, Angola, Guinea Gulf, Africa
Fig. 1 - S1 IW (19.10.2017 - 29.10.2017) - VV polarization with histogram equalization - Oil spills detected in Guinea Gulf.
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Gulf of Guinea is renown for its offshore oil resources & the frequency of oil spills in the region due to oil production, sabotages & ship deballasting.
Fig. 2 - S1 IW (22.10.2017 - 29.10.2017) - Oil spills detected off the coast of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo & Benin.
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Fig. 3 - S1 IW (20.10.2017 - 27.10.2017) - Oil spills detected off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon & oil-rich Nigeria.
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Fig. 4 - S1 IW (19.10.2017 - 29.10.2017) - Oil spills detected off the coast of Gabon, Congo, DRC & Angola, all oil producers.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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