MARINE LITTER SIGNATURES IN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES (MIREIA)

This project complements on-going activities and other activities started under this call for proposals by focussing on optimising the techniques for the detection of marine litter in SAR data. This complements the use of optical data and modelling in order to progressively build up an integrated picture as to how marine litter (and marine plastics in particular) are entering the marine environment, how they are transporeted, how they break down and how they are impacting different ecosystems.

Results:

• “A first approach to the automatic detection of marine litter in SAR images using artificial intelligence”,  Salvatore Savastano, Ivan Cester, Marti Perpinya, Laia Romero, Proceedings of IGARSS 2021, Brussels