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Finding Plastic Patches in Coastal Waters using Optical Satellite Data

Satellites collecting optical data offer a unique perspective from which to observe the problem of plastic litter in the marine environment, but few studies have successfully demonstrated their use for this purpose. For the first time, we show that patches of floating macroplastics are detectable in...

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Autores principales: Biermann, Lauren, Clewley, Daniel, Martinez-Vicente, Victor, Topouzelis, Konstantinos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32327674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62298-z