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Identifications of marine litter accumulations in the Mediterranean Sea

05 Jun 2023

Identifications of marine litter accumulations in the Mediterranean Sea


Title: Identifications of marine litter accumulations in the Mediterranean Sea

Description: Top: A frontal area east of the Po River Delta, Italy. Bottom: litter strands after land-based rainfall events on an area south Calabria, Italy (bottom left image has been processed with the sea mask removed to show visible RGB rendering of the sea surface, where floating marine debris can be seen highlighted in red). Colour coding in the two processed images (pictures with uniform blue background): Blue = Open water, green = Low probability litter (<50%), yellow = Medium probability litter (50-85%), red = High probability litter (>85%).

Copyright: ESA/ARGANS

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