Operational oil spill monitoring is a highly time sensitive service in which satellite-based information products are used to map spills, support clean up efforts, and report to regulators. C-CORE uses a combination of commercial and freely available data as required by the client, and is currently on an on-call basis for clients on the east coast of Canada, but services have also been delivered to other locations in the past.
This weathered oil spill was detected as part of C-CORE’s oil spill monitoring service and was confirmed by aerial surveillance:
