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An integrated approach for marine litter hot spots identification

  • Claudia Farris
  • Dario Giaiotti
  • Stefano Miniussi
  • Cristina Sgubin
  • Nicolò Tudorov

Marine litter is defined as any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment, and it is among the most important environmental problems which are affecting the sea nowadays. In this work, we present an integrated approach to the marine litter hot spots identification. The results come from a coordinate activity of filed campaigns, satellite monitoring and numerical model simulations. The method has been applied on the Adriatic basin as part of the MARLESS INTERREG IT-HR project.

  • Keywords:
  • Marine Litter,
  • Numerical Simulations,
  • Lagrangian models,
  • Satellite imagery,
  • Spectral signature,
  • Hot spots,
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Claudia Farris

ARPA FVG, Italy

Dario Giaiotti

ARPA FVG, Italy

Stefano Miniussi

ARPA FVG, Italy

Cristina Sgubin

ARPA FVG, Italy

Nicolò Tudorov

ARPA FVG, Italy

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Chapter Title

An integrated approach for marine litter hot spots identification

Authors

Claudia Farris, Dario Giaiotti, Stefano Miniussi, Cristina Sgubin, Nicolò Tudorov

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English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1.20

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2022

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Ninth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques”

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Livorno (Italy) 14th-16th June 2022

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Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci

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2022

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© 2022 Author(s)

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1

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Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques

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2975-0423

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2975-0288

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