Sargassum From Space 2025. Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard esa’s environmental satellite, envisat. Researchers are using satellite images to improve their ability to monitor and forecast when and where the sargassum mats could pile up on beaches.

A promising outlook for 2025. Researchers have been working to track and study floating sargassum, a prolific seaweed swamping caribbean and west african shorelines, and causing environmental and.