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Technologies
Monitoring technologies
Monitoring of marine litter collect operations
Database about floating marine litter is obtained from the daily reporting of litter weights collected by the different cleaning teams at sea and on land, thanks to a flexible progressive web app solution
Video monitoring at river mouths
Real time processing of high resolution video images allows to estimate the floating marine litter flux being discharged with river waters into the sea
Satellite ocean color images
Ocean color products from space-borne remote sensing allows to identify fronts in the surface ocean, with possible floating marine litter accumulation