Editorial: Early Career Scientists’ Contributions to River Plastic Monitoring Across Scales

Emmerik, Tim van; González-Fernández, Daniel; Mendrik, Freija; Biermann, Lauren; Drummond, Jennifer; Liedermann, Marcel

doi:10.3389/feart.2022.861531

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“…As a result, the scope and focus of this study are to review the literature on using satellites to monitor macro-, meso-, micro-, and nanoplastics in water. Furthermore, hyperspectral, thermal imaging, and multispectral sensors have been successfully applied to monitoring macroplastic debris [15,16,29,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] , and researchers recently discovered that SAR can be used for monitoring microplastics, a research domain still in its infancy [24] . The significance of monitoring global plastic regardless of size, occurrence, source, and location is emphasized by many researchers [42,50] .…”

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“…Therefore, plastic pollution in water is a source of endocrine-disrupting activity chemicals that are hazardous to human health [12,13] . Most researchers have highlighted plastic pollution in water as a twenty-first-century problem of contaminants of emerging concerns (CECs) in the coastal zones, terrestrial, riverine, and oceanic ecosystems [14][15][16][17] .…”

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Satellite sensors as an emerging technique for monitoring macro- and microplastics in aquatic ecosystems

Mukonza¹,

Chiang²

2022

Water Emerg Contam & Nanoplastics

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Plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems has been identified as a growing global water pollution threat that is negatively impacting water quality and, as a result, affecting the health of humans, aquatic animals, and wildlife. Therefore, it presents a global environmental catastrophe that requires immediate attention. Plastics in water (in their different forms, macro-, meso-, micro-, and nanoplastics) are contaminants of emerging concerns that have since evolved to be a global environmental threat. Despite increasing levels of pollution in aquatic ecosystems, there are insufficient monitoring data to evaluate the extent of the catastrophe. Traditional methods of monitoring plastics in water are constrained by high sampling costs, intensive labor, and limited temporal and spatial coverage, which results in limited monitoring data. Thus, insufficient monitoring data limit our understanding of the true quantities and persistence of plastic particles in aquatic ecosystems, as well as the extent to which they impact the aquatic environment. There is increasing availability of free big geospatial data (amounting to petabytes/day) from satellite sensors for potentially monitoring plastics. This provides a possible solution to these challenges by minimizing the fieldwork required and therefore reducing the costs and sampling time. The study purpose of this review is to analyze advances in emerging technology such as the use of satellite sensors to monitor the occurrence of macro- and microplastics in freshwater, ultimately aimed at creating new operational monitoring solutions. This review: (1) examines the literature to identify trends, accomplishments, and limitations of using satellite data to monitor plastics in water; (2) identifies and compares traditional, and machine and deep learning satellite image classification methods for monitoring plastics in water; and (3) identifies research gaps and summarizes future perspectives and recommendations to improve monitoring methods.

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Satellite sensors as an emerging technique for monitoring macro- and microplastics in aquatic ecosystems

Mukonza¹,

Chiang²

2022

Water Emerg Contam & Nanoplastics

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Sources and hotspots of microplastics of the rivers ending to the southern Caspian Sea

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Mehdinia

Rahnama

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Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Editorial: Early Career Scientists’ Contributions to River Plastic Monitoring Across Scales

Abstract: In contrast to what is often assumed, insights from previous research suggests that most plastics leaked into the environment are not emitted into the ocean (Weiss et al., 2021;

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Satellite sensors as an emerging technique for monitoring macro- and microplastics in aquatic ecosystems

Satellite sensors as an emerging technique for monitoring macro- and microplastics in aquatic ecosystems

Sources and hotspots of microplastics of the rivers ending to the southern Caspian Sea

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