Mar 08 2007
RADARSAT: Tracking oil spills at sea
More than 300,000 oil-covered seabirds die each year off the Atlantic Coast of Canada where more than 10,000 ships travel every year between North America and Europe. While only a small fraction of these vessels spill or deliberately dump oil, the environmental toll is enormous. Canada’s I-STOP Project (Integrated Satellite Tracking of Polluters) is now [...]