Monitoring of mud-volcanic fluid manifestations in the Caspian Sea according to multispectral satellite data
- Authors: Bondur V.G.1, Chernikova V.N.1, Zamshin V.V.1
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Affiliations:
- AEROCOSMOS Research Institute for Aerospace Monitoring
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 34-47
- Section: ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ КОСМИЧЕСКОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ О ЗЕМЛЕ
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0205-9614/article/view/306988
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0205961425020032
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/ejimbz
- ID: 306988
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Abstract
In this paper, 180 cases of mud-volcanic fluid (MVF) manifestations on the marine surface and in the near-surface layer of the Caspian Sea in the area of Cheleken-Livanovsk Rise in 2019-2021 were detected and studied based on the results of satellite monitoring using multispectral satellite data. For the areas of MVF manifestations, the reflectance was analyzed in 7 spectral bands of the Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A/B equipment in the wavelength range of 0.44–2.2 µm. Significant positive contrasts in Violet (~0.44 µm), Blue (~0.48 µm), and Green (~0.56 µm) spectral bands due to the presence of suspended matter and gas bubbles in the near-surface layer of the water column were detected in the areas of MVF manifestations. Mathematic expectations of Weber contrasts in those spectral bands varied in a range between С~0.47 and С~0.77. Complex analysis of spatiogeometric MVF manifestation characteristics and region bathymetry map allowed us to find coordinates of emission sources that corresponded to the peak of the mud-volcanic shoal.
About the authors
V. G. Bondur
AEROCOSMOS Research Institute for Aerospace Monitoring
Email: office@aerocosmos.info
Moscow, Russia
V. N. Chernikova
AEROCOSMOS Research Institute for Aerospace Monitoring
Email: office@aerocosmos.info
Moscow, Russia
V. V. Zamshin
AEROCOSMOS Research Institute for Aerospace Monitoring
Author for correspondence.
Email: office@aerocosmos.info
Moscow, Russia
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