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9.11 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
Although the number of oil spill incidents has decreased over time, some of these incidents go
unnoticed due to remote areas or less severity of the incident. Some of the major oil spills, like
Deepwater Horizon, affected the ecosystem adversely. After a couple of years, the oil was cleaned
from the shorelines, but a large amount of the dispersed oil sat on the sea bed, and according to
several experiments, it is speculated that there is still an oil layer of good thickness lying over
the seaoor. SAR satellites provide good resolution imagery with frequently repeated passes and
have advantages over optical remote sensing. To extend the capabilities, ...