IOCCG Task Force on Remote Sensing of Marine Litter and Debris
Core Topic 1: Technologies
The Technologies core topic aims to:
- Define an internationally coordinated roadmap for remote sensing systems to support marine plastic litter detection.
- Assess the capabilities of current remote sensing technologies to detect, quantify, characterise and track marine plastic litter.
- Identify the complementarity/synergy of EO with current and future platforms that could be used for marine plastic detection.
- Identify the experimental/modelling approaches needed to refine requirements for future marine litter missions.
Members
Coordinator
Victor Martinez-Vicente
PML, UK
Email: vmv@pml.ac.uk
Team Members
Peter de Maagt
ESA, NL
Email: Peter.de.Maagt@esa.int
Heidi Dierssen
U. Connecticut, USA
Email: heidi.dierssen@uconn.edu
Michelle Gierach
JPL-NASA, USA
Email : michelle.gierach@jpl.nasa.gov
Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy
ERI-UHI, UK
Email: lonneke.goddijn-murphy@uhi.ac.
Valentina Raimondi
CNR-IFAC, IT
Email: v.raimondi@ifac.cnr.it
Ellen Ramirez
NOAA, USA
Email: ellen.ramirez@noaa.gov
Core Topic 1: Deliverables
The sixth International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS) meeting will take place in Darmstadt, Germany from 1 – 4 December 2025, hosted by EUMETSAT and ESA with support from other agencies.