Satellite monitoring of terrestrial plastic waste

Plastic waste is a significant environmental pollutant that is difficult to monitor. We created a system of neural networks to analyze spectral, spatial, and temporal components of Sentinel-2 satellite data to identify terrestrial aggregations of waste. The system works at wide geographic scale, fin...

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Main Authors: Caleb Kruse, Edward Boyda, Sully Chen, Krishna Karra, Tristan Bou-Nahra, Dan Hammer, Jennifer Mathis, Taylor Maddalene, Jenna Jambeck, Fabien Laurier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9847976/?tool=EBI