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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Lessons learned for detecting and monitoring marine 
 litter using remote sensing"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Konstantinos N Topouzelis\, Associate Professor\,  Marine
  Remote Sensing Group\, Department of Marine Sciences\, University of Aege
 an\, GR\nAbstract:\nMarine litter is a global problem affecting the world
 ’s oceans\, with millions of plastic items ending up in the sea and affe
 cting marine ecosystems. Coastal zones are among the most populated and pr
 oductive areas globally\, with various habitats and ecosystems. Global and
  local players have planned several initiatives towards detection\, monito
 ring\, and cleaning. Three initiatives will be presented\, one for the sea
  surface\, one for the beaches\, and one for the sea column. The Plastic L
 itter Project (PLP)\, initiated in 2018\, with the objective to construct 
 large artificial targets and to deploy them on the sea surface for extrac
 ting meaningful spectral measurements in near-real life scenarios. Additio
 nally\, Coastal Marine Litter Observatory (CMLO)\, a drone-based and fully
  automated system\, was developed for detecting and mapping the litter acc
 umulations on the beaches. CMLO uses a citizen science UAS data acquisitio
 n protocol to enhance the data collection and is able to produce litter de
 nsity maps using a dedicated machine learning detection algorithm. Finally
 \, the spectral behaviour of plastics in the water column have recently be
 en studied through SPOTS project. The project takes advantage of drone hyp
 erspectral imagery for interconnecting plastic lab measurements and real-l
 ife experiments.\n\n\nShort biography:\nDr. Konstantinos Topouzelis is an 
 Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences\, University of t
 he Aegean and he is leading the Marine Remote Sensing Group (http://mrsg.a
 egean.gr/). His main research interest is on the analysis of remote sensin
 g datasets\, including satellite and aerial images\, for marine and coasta
 l applications. His expertise includes automatic detection of oceanographi
 c phenomena\, Object Based Image Analysis\, image processing algorithms an
 d coastal mapping. He is an author of more than 50 refereed papers in inte
 rnational scientific journals\, member of editorial board and referee in s
 everal scientific journals\, principal investigator in international resea
 rch projects. During the last years he has focused on fighting marine plas
 tics from the coastal area.\n 
LOCATION:ALP 1 107 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ALP%201%20107 https://epfl.
 zoom.us/j/69011077410
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