Researchers are combining AI-based satellite-image recognition with drift prediction models to improve the collection of floating space debris in the ocean.

Identifying and tracking floating space debris is critical to ocean clean-up efforts. However, effective systems for doing that remain elusive, despite the wealth of satellite images and weather data currently available.

The AI for Detecting Ocean Plastic Pollution with Tracking (ADOPT) project aims to change this with two types of systems.

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