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Satellite Analysis Shows Gulf Oil Spills Typically Underestimated
2013-01-30 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: An analysis of satellite images has revealed that small oil spills that have become common in the Gulf of Mexico are often much larger than reported, U.S. scientists say. Using technology that calculates the size of oil slicks based on differences in the texture of water surface, as captured in publicly available satellite photos, a team of oceanographers at Florida State University (FSU) estimated that known human-caused spills in the Gulf were typically about 13 times larger than reported to the...
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