Unmanned aerial vehicles and deep learning for assessment of anthropogenic marine debris on beaches on an island in a semi-enclosed sea in Japan

Enabling a large-scale assessment of litter along Saudi Arabian red sea shores by combining drones and machine learning

(2021) Cecilia Martin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Coastal margins and backshores represent a major sink for marine debris: insights from a continental-scale analysis

(2020) Arianna Olivelli et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Field test of beach litter assessment by commercial aerial drone

(2020) Hoi-Shing Lo et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Debris Survey in Coastal Areas: Long-Term Monitoring Programme to Study Spatial and Temporal Accumulation of the Dynamics of Beached Marine Litter

(2020) Silvia Merlino et al.   Remote Sensing

Estimation of plastic marine debris volumes on beaches using unmanned aerial vehicles and image processing based on deep learning

(2020) Shin'ichiro Kako et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Mapping marine litter on coastal dunes with unmanned aerial systems: A showcase on the Atlantic Coast

(2020) Umberto Andriolo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Abundance, characteristics and surface degradation features of microplastics in beach sediments of five coastal areas in Tamil Nadu, India

(2019) Narmatha Sathish et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

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

The rise in ocean plastics evidenced from a 60-year time series

(2019) Clare Ostle et al.   Nature Communications

Anthropogenic Marine Debris assessment with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery and deep learning: A case study along the beaches of the Republic of Maldives

(2019) L. Fallati et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Mapping marine litter using UAS on a beach-dune system: a multidisciplinary approach

(2019) Gil Gonçalves et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Optimising beached litter monitoring protocols through aerial imagery

(2018) A. Deidun et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Use of unmanned aerial vehicles for efficient beach litter monitoring

(2018) Cecilia Martin et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Mapping coastal marine debris using aerial imagery and spatial analysis

(2018) Kirsten Moy et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Connecting flux, deposition and resuspension in coastal debris surveys

(2018) Eavan Brennan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Occurrence of microplastics in the water column and sediment in an inland sea affected by intensive anthropogenic activities

(2018) Zhenfei Dai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Monitoring of beach litter by automatic interpretation of unmanned aerial vehicle images using the segmentation threshold method

(2018) Zhongcong Bao et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Exceptional and rapid accumulation of anthropogenic debris on one of the world’s most remote and pristine islands

(2017) Jennifer L. Lavers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Differentiating littering, urban runoff and marine transport as sources of marine debris in coastal and estuarine environments

(2017) Kathryn Willis et al.   Scientific Reports

Region-Based Convolutional Networks for Accurate Object Detection and Segmentation

(2016) Ross Girshick et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

Marine debris occurrence and treatment: A review

(2016) M.E. Iñiguez et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

The impact of debris on marine life

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

Quantifying cumulative threats to sandy beach ecosystems: A tool to guide ecosystem-based management beyond coastal reserves

(2015) Linda Harris et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

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

Microplastics in the seas

(2014) K. L. Law et al.   SCIENCE

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

(2014) L. C. Woodall et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Low altitude remote-sensing method to monitor marine and beach litter of various colors using a balloon equipped with a digital camera

(2012) Shin’ichiro Kako et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Shorebirds and stakeholders: Effects of beach closure and human activities on shorebirds at a New Jersey coastal beach

(2012) Joanna Burger et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

(2011) Matthew Cole et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The economic cost and control of marine debris damage in the Asia-Pacific region

(2011) Alistair McIlgorm et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

(2009) M. R. Gregory   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Mechanistic implications of plastic degradation

(2007) Baljit Singh et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY