The abundance of beach litter has been increasing globally during the last decades, and it is an issue of global concern. A new survey strategy, based on uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV …
Results from the first large-scale survey of floating natural (NMD) and anthropogenic (AMD) debris (> 2 cm) in the central and western part of the Mediterranean Sea are reported …
N Gnann, B Baschek, TA Ternes - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Detection and identification of macroplastic debris in aquatic environments is crucial to understand and counter the growing emergence and current developments in distribution …
Abstract Anthropogenic Marine Debris (AMD) is one of the major environmental issues of our planet to date, and plastic accounts for 80% of total AMD. Beaches represent one of the …
Plastic pollution in coastal and marine areas is an ongoing environmental concern in the world. Despite its growing concern worldwide, there is a knowledge gap in terms of its …
Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have recently been proven to be valuable remote sensing tools for detecting marine macro litter (MML), with the potential of supporting pollution …
S Kako, S Morita, T Taneda - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
Plastic marine debris (PMD) is of global concern. To help address this problem, a novel approach for estimating PMD volumes using a combination of unmanned aerial vehicle …
Beach litter assessments rely on time inefficient and high human cost protocols, mining the attainment of global beach litter estimates. Here we show the application of an emerging …
The abundance of litter pollution in the marine environment has been increasing globally. Remote sensing techniques are valuable tools to advance knowledge on litter abundance …