Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data
Abstract This paper studies the oil spill, which occurred in the Norilsk and Taimyr region of Russia due to the collapse of the fuel tank at the power station on May 29, 2020. We monitored the snow, ice, water, vegetation and wetland of the region using data from the Multi-Spectral Instruments (MSI)...
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| author | Sankaran Rajendran Fadhil N. Sadooni Hamad Al-Saad Al-Kuwari Anisimov Oleg Himanshu Govil Sobhi Nasir Ponnumony Vethamony |
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| description | Abstract This paper studies the oil spill, which occurred in the Norilsk and Taimyr region of Russia due to the collapse of the fuel tank at the power station on May 29, 2020. We monitored the snow, ice, water, vegetation and wetland of the region using data from the Multi-Spectral Instruments (MSI) of Sentinel-2 satellite. We analyzed the spectral band absorptions of Sentinel-2 data acquired before, during and after the incident, developed true and false-color composites (FCC), decorrelated spectral bands and used the indices, i.e. Snow Water Index (SWI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The results of decorrelated spectral bands 3, 8, and 11 of Sentinel-2 well confirmed the results of SWI, NDWI, NDVI, and FCC images showing the intensive snow and ice melt between May 21 and 31, 2020. We used Sentinel-2 results, field photographs, analysis of the 1980–2020 daily air temperature and precipitation data, permafrost observations and modeling to explore the hypothesis that either the long-term dynamics of the frozen ground, changing climate and environmental factors, or abnormal weather conditions may have caused or contributed to the collapse of the oil tank. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8e1a7610d9244b499a2fbda01eb28b692022-12-21T20:31:05ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222021-02-0111112010.1038/s41598-021-83260-7Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite dataSankaran Rajendran0Fadhil N. Sadooni1Hamad Al-Saad Al-Kuwari2Anisimov Oleg3Himanshu Govil4Sobhi Nasir5Ponnumony Vethamony6Environmental Science Center, Qatar UniversityEnvironmental Science Center, Qatar UniversityEnvironmental Science Center, Qatar UniversityDepartment of Climate Change, State Hydrological InstituteDepartment of Applied Geology, National Institute of TechnologyEarth Science Research Center, Sultan Qaboos UniversityEnvironmental Science Center, Qatar UniversityAbstract This paper studies the oil spill, which occurred in the Norilsk and Taimyr region of Russia due to the collapse of the fuel tank at the power station on May 29, 2020. We monitored the snow, ice, water, vegetation and wetland of the region using data from the Multi-Spectral Instruments (MSI) of Sentinel-2 satellite. We analyzed the spectral band absorptions of Sentinel-2 data acquired before, during and after the incident, developed true and false-color composites (FCC), decorrelated spectral bands and used the indices, i.e. Snow Water Index (SWI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The results of decorrelated spectral bands 3, 8, and 11 of Sentinel-2 well confirmed the results of SWI, NDWI, NDVI, and FCC images showing the intensive snow and ice melt between May 21 and 31, 2020. We used Sentinel-2 results, field photographs, analysis of the 1980–2020 daily air temperature and precipitation data, permafrost observations and modeling to explore the hypothesis that either the long-term dynamics of the frozen ground, changing climate and environmental factors, or abnormal weather conditions may have caused or contributed to the collapse of the oil tank.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83260-7 |
| spellingShingle | Sankaran Rajendran Fadhil N. Sadooni Hamad Al-Saad Al-Kuwari Anisimov Oleg Himanshu Govil Sobhi Nasir Ponnumony Vethamony Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data Scientific Reports |
| title | Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data |
| title_full | Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data |
| title_fullStr | Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data |
| title_short | Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data |
| title_sort | monitoring oil spill in norilsk russia using satellite data |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83260-7 |
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