Petrobras to monitor Equatorial Margin using Nasa tech as of 2025
Brazilian state-controlled oil giant Petrobras will have yet another means of ensuring greater safety in oil exploration in the Equatorial Margin—the stretch comprising the states of Amapá, Pará, and Maranhão. The corporation has been accepted into the Early Adopters program of the Nasa-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission. The system is unprecedented in the collection of synthetic aperture radar images by satellite for Earth observation.
Engineer Fernando Pellon, senior consultant at the Petrobras Research, Development, and Innovation Center, explained that in flooded regions, mangroves are ecosystems that are extremely sensitive to oil spills, which is why the data from oil spill sensitivity maps are so vital.
“This mapping of the region where the mangroves may or may not be flooded, ...