Oil Closes Another California Beach
A beautifully clear Landsat-8 satellite image was taken on August 14. Summerland is at top center on this sequence of images. A faint slick several miles long dominates the center of the scene:
Detail from Landsat-8 satellite image showing California coast around Summerland. |
Seven oil platforms and three passing vessels are noted. Platform A was the site of the infamous Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969. The slick in this image appears to emanate from the same location as Platform A. |
Locations of known natural seeps, and sample collection sites for oil slicks and tarballs, are shown. Data from USGS / PCMSC. The USGS data show a “seep” or small cluster of seeps at the Platform A site. |
It’s not clear to us if the “seeps” indicated by USGS on the data shown above are natural seeps that predate the installation of Platform A and the catastrophic subsea blowout and spill of 1969; or if “seep” in this case refers to the ongoing slow leakage of oil resulting from that blowout. If you know, please write a comment below.
This Sentinel radar satellite image taken yesterday (August 23, 2015) clearly shows the big metal oil platforms as rows of brilliant spots. The large dark patches are slicks — flat patches of water — but it’s not clear on this image if they are caused by seeps, variable wind, floating kelp, or (most likely) all of the above in this very dynamic place:
Sentinel-1A radar satellite image, same area as above, taken on August 23, 2015. Oil platforms are bright spots; slicks (oil and otherwise) are dark patches. Image courtesy Copernicus / ESA. |
Radar image shwoing locations of oil platforms, as well as known oil seeps and sample locations from USGS / PCMSC. Image courtesy Copernicus / ESA. |
Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2015/08/oil-closes-another-california-beach.html
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