Remote sensing of marine litter

ESA and NASA co-organised the workshop “Remote Sensing of Marine Litter 2023” with the theme “Today’s Possibilities, Tomorrow’s Innovation: State of the art, challenges and future directions”. On 16-17 October, around sixty researchers from eleven countries have gathered at ESA ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

“During two intensive days, participants exchanged and discussed research results, covering different remote sensing technologies applied across different aquatic environments, from seas and oceans to some of the most polluted rivers in the world,” explains Paolo Corradi, ESA systems engineer.

“The workshop revealed the great motivation of the participants to continue working on this exciting topic and pinpointed some of the more promising areas of application of remote sensing to best inform decision-making and solutions to the problem of litter pollution,” adds Paolo.