Monitoring of sargassum in the sea and coasts of Quintana Roo

The objective is to detect and measure the size of sargassum stains, as well as to help prevent their arrival on the Quintana Roo reefs and beaches. The images captured are freely available and come from the Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency.

Monitoring of sargassum in the sea and coasts of Quintana Roo
Continuous monitoring of the advance of sargassum in the sea and coasts of Quintana Roo. Credit: UNAM