S1 detects oil leaking from FPSO flowlines

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 14 October 2014 at 05:13:52 UTC
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Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 01 March 2017 at 17:44:11 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): ocean monitoring, oil spill, pollution, Nigeria, Gulf of Guinea
Fig. 1 - S1 (14.10.2014) – VV polarisation with histogram equalization processing.
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Fig. 2 - S1 (18.01.2016), multiple flowlines spills can be identified East of the USAN FPSO.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (03.10.2016), smaller flowlines spills remain ponctual dark spots.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (07.01.2017), surface spills are identified by the presence of a nearby bright point highlighting a vessel.
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Fig. 5 - S1 (01.03.2017), bigger spills spread in parallel patterns according to current and wind.
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Fig. 6 - Full stack with decreasing opacity shows still objects (platfoms and FPSOs) and recurrent spills.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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