Using Satellites to Detect Plastic From Space | The Ocean Cleanup
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- Locating accumulations of plastic in the ocean is the first step in cleaning it up - but hunting plastic at sea is costly and resource-intensive.
Scientists are working on a new way to find these hotspots: using hyperspectral satellites to detect 'plastic fingerprints' from space. We have now published an important hyperspectral dataset in collaboration with researchers from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Hawaii'i Pacific University, and the University of the Aegean and funded by the European Space Agency.
Hyperspectral sensors can find plastic from orbit. But how exactly does it work, and what are the challenges? Robin de Vries, Researcher at The Ocean Cleanup, talks us through it, shows how this cutting-edge dataset was collected, and explains how the dataset has been made available open-access to aid the global push to eliminate ocean plastic pollution.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:26 Why use technology to detect plastic from space?
00:50 About the SPOTS (Spectral Properties Of Submerged and Biofouled Marine Plastic Litter) project - sample sets, measurement tool
02:44 Testing in the real environment:
03:49 Study outcome
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Basic research is so underappreciated because it's not flashy, but it's fundamental to all the future flashy research so it's great to see it being highlighted here!
I couldn't agree more.
I love The Ocean Cleanup. They are turning trash and plastic removal into a science. Thank You TOC!!❤
I ordered a T-shirt through their website. Maybe you'd like to donate too.
@@gy2gy246 Thanks!! I have a shirt and the sunglasses they made with recycled plastic. It’s a terrific organization to support. Thank you for doing your part. Now let’s get trashed! If everyone does a little on their end, there will be less trash washing in to our environments.
The Ocean Cleanup never fails to impress. What an outstanding organization.
What a brilliant, environmentally friendly way to solve an environmental problem. The detailed analysis indicates considerably more thought and consideration given to plastic than the original makers of the stuff ever brought to the table. Delighted to see the ESA is participating. Europe is light years ahead of North America in what is being accomplished. The "Old World" is the New World now!
I can't believe you folks are not in the news a lot!!! You all should be very proud of yourselves for what you are doing!!
Wow this is great work. Hopefully this allows us to locate more pollution to maximize our efforts to remove plastic pollution.
So fabulous. Cleanup I would watch hours and hours of your staff talking and showing us what you do. I live in Australia and don’t even like going to the ocean but I think this is so brilliant and am passionate about cleaning up the world. I wish I could work for you somehow. I love everything about you.
combining science, research and business strategies for the greater good and finding a remedy to the harm done. I LOVE the Ocean Cleanup! Kudos to everyone working there and those that support them.
It's absolutely amazing how much fundamental knowledge the ocean cleanup is developing and doing for all of our benefits that can be built up on by researchers, businesses and government in the future
You really do fantastic groundbreaking studies in this field! I am happy to support TOC with a monthly donation knowing all the brilliant work you do! 👍
A lot of the plastic trash that ends up in the ocean starts its' journey along the roadsides and other places where some people carelessly toss their litter. When it rains and/or the wind blows the litter makes its' way into drainage ditches, then to streams and rivers and finally to the ocean.
Its great that this project is advancing the solutions of this problem in many different ways, it shows we can all contribute with different skill sets.
Thank you for all your work and for taking the time to make videos about your process.
I used to see your videos it is amazing your whole team doing great work and saved lot of marine life and environment 😊
Thank you to everyone involved
Love this new technologi❤❤❤❤ GO science of OceanCleanUp!!! GO!!!
Yes yes yes....your willingness to share your findings with the scientific community speaks volumes about your motivation and intentions. Thank you.
It would be interesting to see if there was a way to add substances to plastic that make it much easier to detect. If you manage to convince all plastic manufacturers around the world to add those substances, all the waste afterwards would be much more visible from space.
this is a really solid idea, but it will cut into the petrochemical companies' bottom lines, so the c-suite bigwigs will shoot it down immediately unless there is some sort of law enacted making it mandatory... but we can hope 🤞🤞
Way to go guys! I love what you do, something EVERYONE should be doing on their own! But I get it, it's so hard to throw your trash away properly!
And in some countries, there's no regular trash pickup.
@@gy2gy246 I can't imagine having trash all over the ground, I'm happy where I'm at!
I keep being so impressed with this young man and his now hugs team. What a absolutly brilliant idea!! They probably have a underwate machine in the making that can travel the oven floor and get the heavy plastics that sink. This is probably way future, because keeping it out to begin with is the most important. I would love to see more of the river cleaning. It doesn't have to be new, just some footage. It's satisfying to see. Plus the more videos, better. Chances of people seing. Keep up the awesome work!!
Thank you! Fascinating science and good for us all.
It's totally amazing what your doing ocean cleanup 😊
Absolutely genius! Best use of tech!
Every country must have team like this
I have been waiting for this. Ocean Cleanup never fails to deliver the best to the world. Keep it up guys!
I live on Vancouver Island! Good job guys
This is great news! However, how are to going to distinct between really less plastic in a patch of ocean from plastic just sunken to deeper layers? 🤔 would be great if one day we could do that, maybe by combining different frequencies etc.?😊
Superb work by all those dedicated people to whom 2:01 we owe so much to with regards protection of our precious seas; oceans and water ways. Well done, keep up the great work!
Heroes!!! Beautiful, wish you the best of the best in the project❤
I love yor creativity! Keep up the good work! 👍
Thank you!
Would such a sensor work when tied to the bottom of ocean going vessels? If so, you are look 10 to 15 meters deeper then from the surface. I realize that most ships are following “standard” routes but those are also the routes where lost of plastics are “lost”.
give this man a medal, and a beer :)
Thank you.
Brilliant!
So bloody smart!
Nice! 🌊
Cool
This is exciting news!
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Siete leggendari 💙
At this point, how long before this detection technology can be applied to recovery/elimination of plastics in [i.e.] the Pacific garbage patch?
like to see actual channelling of debris to the beginning of the intake conveyor
Save Our Planet Now!
Nice, ❤❤❤.
You will find our location helpful too for cleaning process which is in India, location Ludhiana City, the metro city, Punjab State... Our city is having big River Satluj by side which starts from China, passing through himalayas and then reaching our city... In between this lots of garbage being thrown.
I recently watched an investigative film that talked about the FAR-REACHING and EVER-INCREASING presence center of plastics in our environment (Mother Earth) and even our own bodies!!
It was a bit overwhelming but Very Impactful! We've put ourselves [and our planet!] in a difficult position as we DEOEND on plastics for so many things - yet we [too ofthen] fail to recognize and take responsibility for how we use AND Dispose of them!
Les satellites mieux que ✈️ et 🚁 pour le repérage !!!! 👍
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To be honest this can be good technology for military
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This is amazing work and very much needed, however bringing education to the 3rd world countries on how harmful microplastics are to the oceans and any living organism. In all my travels, us westerners are so careful to try to recycle or minimize the use of plastics but can't help noticing the poor coastal countries just don't care...they keep dumping plastics in the oceans and you have to focus on educating them otherwise you will continue to try to clean up something that is bottomless.
Where does all the plastic that you recover go? That kinda sounds hostile but it’s not I’m just curious really about what happens after you recover all the plastic
Oh my word ?!
What do you do with all the plastic you pull from the seas? I know 99.9% is not being recycled yet, nor will probably ever be, so where exactly is it all?
We know the job doesn't end once the plastic is extracted from the water. All the plastic we catch in the GPGP is returned to shore for specialist processing, ready to be given a new life by our partners. We aim for our plastic to be used in innovative and sustainable products to ensure it never re-enters the marine environment. Right now, our partners are working hard on our next designs!
He means it's getting recycled.
Can u clean Indian Ocean🌊?
Amazing Angel's form god. Save us all😊😊
Come to Karachi Pakistan please we disposing too many trash in ocean this need to stop asap many trash coming from indus river too
Build Incinerators and produce hydro
I know of some alternative spectographic resources, but it does not look like they are interested in following up in the comments section.
We all can make a difference i have removed hundreds of kilos of trash off the beaches of northern Guerrero Mexico. Don't need to look far plastic pollution is everywhere.
Maybe if the cruise liners would get rid of their garbage without putting it in the ocean it would be a lot cleaner they should wake up
In reference to technology to detect plastic via satellite. Talk to starlink. The company launched satellite global satellite tech, covering cities, town, villages and agricultural lands globally. Making wifi connection easy from any location.their technology covers land and sea(maritime) you should be able to use the technology to detect plastic in water.
You would be better off getting company's to start using glass again or make single use bottles illegal.
Or you can make company's give you a 1 or 2% off everything you buy if you bring your own bag like hemp or tree cotton or vine weved bags stop single use plastics.
Do it then
@@Mdqnw I need a company first and I'm saving for my own farm and food store.
I'll grow all the none normal things like king Coconuts and jackfruit some mushrooms like lions main.
Ps if I listed everything it would be a few hundred different plants trees shrubs cactus and more.
Yes I've gone to college for it and wow it's simple it's only not simple and hard the moment they try adding chemicals to the land well that and monoculture.
@@Mdqnw oh I forgot to add I already bought 30 acers I just need the permits and a few seeds from over seas.
@@DeathsGarden-oz9gg Sounds like a cool project
This is cool, wish more people gave a shit about this stuff. You'd think there'd be more eyes on this stuff considering the global warming/pollution shit being constantly shoved down our throats on tv.
Using garbage in space to find garbage in the ocean?
Garbage in space??
The more and faster you can clean up these plastics the better because UV radiation breaks down plastics into microplastics and nanoplastics .
This is very harmfull for all life , its disrupts the body and reproduction .
This has to be don fast because the amount of UV is increasing because of the declining earths magnetic field .
We see also the effects of that , the magnetic poles are speeding up to reach each other at Indonesia and the South Atlantic Anomaly is increasing in size .
hmm why not use etymology? I think many animals can be engineering to hunt plastic
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. What did you mean?
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What I can do is to congratulate you sincerely for your commitment, and for the solutions you find to hinder, counter and resolve problems caused by human stupidity.
🌟🍾🥂 Happy New Year to you all 🥂🍾🌟, have a great continuation and see you.
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It's endless work. instead of inventing the technology of pleasure, madness and ..... the lost geniuses as well as the governments would do better to invent the technology of saving the planet earth because let's not forget that it is thanks to she that we are here. thanks to Océan Cleanup and also to greanpeace. Thank you very much for all. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Wow, you guys must see a lot of stuff you can't explain 🫣🤣Just joking, have a good one 😎👍🫶🌺🌺🌺
What a brilliant, environmentally friendly way to solve an environmental problem. The detailed analysis indicates considerably more thought and consideration given to plastic than the original makers of the stuff ever brought to the table. Delighted to see the ESA is participating. Europe is light years ahead of North America in what is being accomplished. The "Old World" is the New World now!
Canada partnered with them off our Pacific coast
also Hawai'i Pacific University was involved. i like the comment except for the "europe vs north america" quip... scientists are inherently collaborative and such dichotomies are pretty pointless or short-lived, especially since they plan to make the data public; that'll likely mean groups everywhere will shed new light via innovative data analyses
I understand your comment and agree. It just feels like Europe is living more sustainably than those of us in North America. These innovations are already part of European daily life whereas too many of us North Americans are still stuck in the old ways.
I'm delighted to hear it. As a Canadian I wish Canadian mainstream media would give us real information instead of the fossil fuel lies! We need to hear more about science and sustainability. Thank you for letting me know!
Thank you.