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Verified Slicks: Building Trust at the Intersection of AI and Human Expertise

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Combining AI detection with expert validation to provide greater clarity on sources most likely responsible

We launched Cerulean to put the power of satellite-based pollution monitoring directly into the hands of journalists, NGOs, scientists, and watchdogs worldwide, allowing, anyone, anywhere to monitor oil pollution in the ocean and their potential sources. With Verified Slicks, users can now request expert human review of any slick detection or source association from the Cerulean platform.

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New in Cerulean: Tracking Oil Pollution from Sanctioned Tankers

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How POLITICO Used Cerulean to Expose Oil Pollution from Sanctioned Tankers

A new investigation by POLITICO and SourceMaterial using SkyTruth’s Cerulean oil slick monitoring platform found that at least five sanctioned Russian tankers have continued operating in European waters after leaving oil slicks behind. The investigation is one of the first to directly link environmental damage from the “shadow fleet” to visible pollution at sea.

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Dark Vessels Q&A: Bringing Transparency to Hidden Ocean Pollution

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SkyTruth recently launched a new feature in Cerulean that identifies oil pollution from “dark vessels” — ships that don’t broadcast their location via Automatic Identification System (AIS).

This Q&A with SkyTruth’s Principal Product Manager, Kris Moreau, and Machine Learning Engineer, Jona Raphael, explores how this technology works, what they’ve discovered so far, and what it means for ocean transparency.

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New Partnership Unites Marine Governance Advocacy and Tech to Defend Indonesian Waters

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SkyTruth and Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative join forces to catch ocean polluters, improve compliance, and strengthen enforcement

SkyTruth’s efforts to hold ocean polluters accountable just received a big boost in Southeast Asia. SkyTruth and the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI), an environmental policy think tank based in Jakarta, have established a formal collaboration to detect chronic oil pollution from vessels in Indonesian waters.

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That’s not Atlantis, it’s just a bunch of human-made structures at sea

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SkyTruth’s offshore infrastructure dataset can help identify areas at high risk of oil pollution events.

Although anyone can go to Google Maps and find most buildings in the world, we can’t do the same for infrastructure at sea. SkyTruth and our partners at Global Fishing Watch were inspired by this problem and created a dataset that allows us to locate offshore infrastructure. By applying three criteria, intern Breanna Xiong identified structures that have a high, medium, or low likelihood of being related to oil and gas production. This can make monitoring for oil pollution and identifying sources more efficient, and support SkyTruth’s project Cerulean.

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