title: DETECTION AND DISCRIMINATION OF SEA SURFACE FILMS IN THE COASTAL ZONE OF NORTHEASTERN BLACK SEA USING SAR DATA
abstract: Results of radar monitoring of the sea surface in the Russian sector of the Black Sea coastal zone are presented. The attention was focused on the detection of oil pollution as well as biogenic and anthropogenic surfactant films. The basic data were high resolution radar images obtained by synthetic aperture radars (SAR) on board Envisat and ERS-2 satellites of the European Space Agency. Spatial and temporal variations of different film type manifestations in SAR images were analyzed. The effect