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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Lessons learned for detecting and monitoring marine 
 litter using remote sensing"
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Konstantinos N. Topouzelis\nMarine Remote Sensing Group\nD
 pt of Marine Sciences\nUniversity of Aegean GR\nAbstract:\nMarine litter i
 s a global problem affecting the world’s oceans\, with millions of plast
 ic items ending up in the sea and affecting marine ecosystems. Coastal zon
 es are among the most populated and productive areas globally\, with vario
 us habitats and ecosystems. Global and local players have planned several 
 initiatives towards detection\, monitoring\, and cleaning. Three initiativ
 es will be presented\, one for the sea surface\, one for the beaches\, and
  one for the sea column. The Plastic Litter Project (PLP)\, initiated in 2
 018\, with the objective to construct large artificial targets and to depl
 oy them on the sea surface for extracting meaningful spectral measurement
 s in near-real life scenarios. Additionally\, Coastal Marine Litter Observ
 atory (CMLO)\, a drone-based and fully automated system\, was developed fo
 r detecting and mapping the litter accumulations on the beaches. CMLO uses
  a citizen science UAS data acquisition protocol to enhance the data colle
 ction and is able to produce litter density maps using a dedicated machine
  learning detection algorithm. Finally\, the spectral behaviour of plastic
 s in the water column have recently been studied through SPOTS project. Th
 e project takes advantage of drone hyperspectral imagery for interconnecti
 ng plastic lab measurements and real-life experiments.\n\n\nShort biograph
 y:\nDr. Konstantinos Topouzelis is an Associate Professor in the Departmen
 t of Marine Sciences\, University of the Aegean and he is leading the Mari
 ne Remote Sensing Group (http://mrsg.aegean.gr/). His main research intere
 st is on the analysis of remote sensing datasets\, including satellite and
  aerial images\, for marine and coastal applications. His expertise includ
 es automatic detection of oceanographic phenomena\, Object Based Image Ana
 lysis\, image processing algorithms and coastal mapping. He is an author o
 f more than 50 refereed papers in international scientific journals\, memb
 er of editorial board and referee in several scientific journals\, princip
 al investigator in international research projects. During the last years 
 he has focused on fighting marine plastics from the coastal area.
LOCATION:ALP 1 109 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ALP%201%20109 https://epfl.
 zoom.us/j/69011077410
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