The article presents the relevance of the issue of using remote sensing data in assessing environ-mental and economic damage from oil pollution. It describes the main approaches and methods of environmental and economic assessment of damage. It gives their advantages and disadvantages of the methods. It discusses the results of the study. The article also proposes the main factors influencing the economic and ecological consequences associated with environmental pollution by oil spills. It car-ries out the analysis of the capabilities of remote sensing data to determine the presented factors. And It proposes the directions of further research on the development of methods for determining the types and scales of oil pollution based on aerospace survey data, adapted for different natural-territorial complexes.
The Investigation of Oil Pollution Using Remote Sensing Data and Geochemical Criteria in Qarah Chauq Area, Northern Iraq
