Ships polluting the oceans can now be spotted from space
Environmental monitoring organization SkyTruth watches for oil slicks using satellite data, and they've made it clear that oil disposal och leaks can no longer be hidden at sea.
Cerulean uses machine learning to identify oil slicks in radar satellite imagery, then analyzes the AIS locations of marine vessels and offshore oil platforms to identify each slick’s potential source with vessel name an route in conjunction to the slick. The service is open for anyone and this approach to surveillance places a new set of expectations on the maritime industry, calling for transparency and verifiable adherence to environmental regulations.
For forward-thinking shipping companies, integrating solutions like the Whitebox® becomes indispensable.
Acting as a transparent, real-time compliance tool, it enables shipowners to not only demonstrate their commitment to environmental protection but also being able to support it with onboard collected discharge data. The Whitebox was developed over 25 years ago as a request from a shipowner who had passed an oil slick with a vessel and incorrectly got accused of being the polluter. This sparked the development of the Whitebox to protect the shipowners and enabling them to prove their compliance by GPS tagged discharge data. 25 years later the need seems even more called for. As a response to the Skytruth cerulean system we can collect all Whitebox data in the cloud and generate discharge reports including each individual discharge on a map view together with all discharge data presented in the oil record book format.
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