IOCCG Task Force on Remote Sensing of Marine Litter and Debris
Core Topic 3: Datasets
The Datasets core topic aims to:
- Establish protocols for high quality data collection, handling, processing and storage.
- Support and promote the gathering of relevant high quality in situ plastics data.
- Provide quality control and quality assurance of essential metadata based.
- Support and maintain a platform for collaboration, source for datasets-of-opportunity, forum for community.
- Promote open-access to long-term archived high quality and easy to merge datasets as well as open-source processing software tools.
Shungudzemwoyo Garaba
University of Oldenburg, Germany
Email: shungu.garaba@uni-oldenburg.de
Jan Hafner
University of Hawaii, USA
Email: jhafner@hawaii.edu
Andreas Hueni
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Email: ahueni@geo.uzh.ch
La Daana Kanhai
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
Email: LaDaana.Kanhai@sta.uwi.edu
Topouzelis Konstantinos
University of Aegean, Greece
Email: topouzelis@aegean.gr
Tomás Acuña
University of Chile, Chile
Email: tomasacuna@ug.uchile.cl
Marie-Helene Rio
ESA-ESRIN, Italy
Email: Marie-Helene.RIO@esa.int
Bill Robberson
Ocean P3 Systems, USA
Email: bill@oceanp3systems.com
Laia Romero
Lobelia Earth, Spain
Email: laia@lobelia.earth
Chris Ruf
University of Michigan, USA
Email: cruf@umich.edu
Peter Ryan
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Email: pryan31@gmail.com
A list of online repositories for remote sensing of marine litter and debris
A Dataset bibliography is updated periodically when new references are submitted by readers.
If you would like your dataset publication included please send details to Raisha Lovindeer (raisha@ioccg.org) using the following format:
Lastname1, Initials1., Lastname2, Initials2., etc. (Year). Full title of publication, Available online [url] from Name of Repository, DOI url
The data must meet the following requirements ‘Remote sensing’ AND ‘Marine litter and debris’
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.