Measuring Marine Plastic Debris from Space: Initial Assessment of Observation Requirements

Are We Speaking the Same Language? Recommendations for a Definition and Categorization Framework for Plastic Debris

(2019) Nanna B. Hartmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Operational Monitoring of Illegal Fishing in Ghana through Exploitation of Satellite Earth Observation and AIS Data

(2019) Andrey Kurekin et al.   Remote Sensing

Distribution of plastic polymer types in the marine environment; A meta-analysis

(2019) Gabriel Erni-Cassola et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Detection of floating plastics from satellite and unmanned aerial systems (Plastic Litter Project 2018)

(2019) Konstantinos Topouzelis et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Spaceborne Lidar in the Study of Marine Systems

(2018) Chris A. Hostetler et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

(2018) Frank E. Muller-Karger et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Accumulation and Subduction of Buoyant Material at Submesoscale Fronts

(2018) John R. Taylor   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

A quantitative assessment of human interventions and climate change on the West African sediment budget

(2018) A. Giardino et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Ocean convergence and the dispersion of flotsam

(2018) Eric A. D’Asaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An overview of approaches and challenges for retrieving marine inherent optical properties from ocean color remote sensing

(2018) P. Jeremy Werdell et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

An airborne remote sensing case study of synthetic hydrocarbon detection using short wave infrared absorption features identified from marine-harvested macro- and microplastics

(2018) Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Studies of the effects of microplastics on aquatic organisms: What do we know and where should we focus our efforts in the future?

(2018) Luís Carlos de Sá et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Imaging Spectrometry of Inland and Coastal Waters: State of the Art, Achievements and Perspectives

(2018) C. Giardino et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Synergies of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy with Other Remote Sensing Approaches

(2018) Luis Guanter et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Survey of Hyperspectral Earth Observation Applications from Space in the Sentinel-2 Context

(2018) Julie Transon et al.   Remote Sensing

Sensing Ocean Plastics with an Airborne Hyperspectral Shortwave Infrared Imager

(2018) Shungudzemwoyo P. Garaba et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Remote sensing of Sargassum biomass, nutrients, and pigments

(2018) Mengqiu Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Proof of concept for a model of light reflectance of plastics floating on natural waters

(2018) Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Anthropogenic marine debris over beaches: Spectral characterization for remote sensing applications

(2018) Tomás Acuña-Ruz et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy for Sustainable Agriculture: Contributions and Challenges

(2018) Tobias B. Hank et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Experimental tests and radiometric calculations for the feasibility of fluorescence LIDAR-based discrimination of oil spills from UAV

(2017) Valentina Raimondi et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Hyperspectral remote sensing detection of petroleum hydrocarbons in mixtures with mineral substrates: Implications for onshore exploration and monitoring

(2017) Rebecca Del'Papa Moreira Scafutto et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Dynamics and early post-tsunami evolution of floating marine debris near Fukushima Daiichi

(2017) John Philip Matthews et al.   Nature Geoscience

River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

(2017) Laurent C. M. Lebreton et al.   Nature Communications

Characterization and Discrimination of Plastic Materials Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence

(2016) Valeria Spizzichino et al.   APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY

Modelling accumulation of marine plastics in the coastal zone; what are the dominant physical processes?

(2016) Kay Critchell et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Marine microplastic debris: a targeted plan for understanding and quantifying interactions with marine life

(2016) James R Clark et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Inelastic hyperspectral lidar for profiling aquatic ecosystems

(2016) Guangyu Zhao et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Multi-frequency and polarimetric quantitative analysis of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill event comparing different SAR systems

(2016) Daniele Latini et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Sentinel-2’s Potential for Sub-Pixel Landscape Feature Detection

(2016) Julien Radoux et al.   Remote Sensing

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

(2015) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Planning for a spaceborne Earth Observation mission: From user expectations to measurement requirements

(2015) Michel M. Verstraete et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Statistical analyses of the results of 25 years of beach litter surveys on the south-eastern North Sea coast

(2015) Marcus Schulz et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

The impact of debris on marine life

(2015) S.C. Gall et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Space station image captures a red tide ciliate bloom at high spectral and spatial resolution

(2015) Heidi Dierssen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Remote sensing of terrestrial non-photosynthetic vegetation using hyperspectral, multispectral, SAR, and LiDAR data

(2015) Zhaoqin Li et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Spectral and spatial requirements of remote measurements of pelagic Sargassum macroalgae

(2015) Chuanmin Hu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Applicability of SAR to Marine Debris Surveillance After the Great East Japan Earthquake

(2014) Motofumi Arii et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Characterization of Marine Surface Slicks by Radarsat-2 Multipolarization Features

(2014) Stine Skrunes et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Anthropogenic Litter in Urban Freshwater Ecosystems: Distribution and Microbial Interactions

(2014) Timothy Hoellein et al.   PLoS One

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Plastic debris in the open ocean

(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Space-based lidar measurements of global ocean carbon stocks

(2013) Michael J. Behrenfeld et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Algorithm for Sea Surface Wind Retrieval From TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Data

(2013) Xiao-Ming Li et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Quality Assessment of Surface Current Fields From TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Along-Track Interferometry and Doppler Centroid Analysis

(2013) Roland Romeiser et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Characterization of high-density polyethylene using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF)

(2012) M. Than Htun   JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH

In situ evidence of non-zero reflectance in the OLCI 1020nm band for a turbid estuary

(2012) E. Knaeps et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Airborne hyperspectral remote sensing to assess spatial distribution of water quality characteristics in large rivers: The Mississippi River and its tributaries in Minnesota

(2012) Leif G. Olmanson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

(2011) Matthew Cole et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Spatial Patterns of Plastic Debris along Estuarine Shorelines

(2010) Mark A. Browne et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems: Introduction and synthesis

(2010) B. M. Hickey et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A conceptual model of the strongly tidal Columbia River plume

(2009) Alexander R. Horner-Devine et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

(2009) D. K. A. Barnes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment

(2009) P. G. Ryan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A novel ocean color index to detect floating algae in the global oceans

(2009) Chuanmin Hu   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT