Re:Monitoring marine litter from space is now a reality
by pkage on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:51PM
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Additionally, the only sea covered in its entirety is the Mediterranean. Generally, constellations don't do captures over open ocean as researchers/customers tend to be much more interested in events on land; this makes it difficult to do long-term analyses of marine events as the data just simply isn't captured.
Source: work in the industry
Re:Monitoring marine litter from space is now a reality
by bornfreddy on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:08PM
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True, but coastlines are well covered. Assuming the pollution comes from the coast it should be fairly easy to determine what the hotspots are (see Po river on the map in the article).
> Systematic global coverage of land surfaces from 56° S to 84° N, coastal waters, and all of the Mediterranean Sea
The constellation is not complete yet though. Sentinel-2C is planned to launch in September [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel-2 [1] https://www.satnow.com/launch-mission-details/sentinel-2c