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Detection and Traceability of Marine Debris - Proposal

for an Integrated Marine Debris Observing System

Jian-Ming Liau Ning Yen Chien-Erh Weng Hsiao-Hsia Li
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Wen-Rong Yang Chung-Che Cho Jian-Wu Lai Yung-Fang Chiu
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1 Director, Marine Industry and Engineering Research Center, NAMR, Taiwan
2 CEO, IndigoWaters Institute, Taiwan
3 Professor, Department of Telecommuting Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and
Technology, Taiwan
4 Senior Specialist, Ocean Conservation Administration, Ocean Affairs Council, Taiwan
5 Assistant Research Fellow, Marine Industry and Engineering Research Center, NAMR, Taiwan
6 Associate Research Fellow, Marine Science and Information Research Center, NAMR, Taiwan
7 Research Fellow, Marine Industry and Engineering Research Center, NAMR, Taiwan
8 President, National Academy of Marine Research (NAMR), Taiwan

ABSTRACT

The risks and impacts of marine debris on the marine ecological, the marine
environment, the safety of marine navigation and the marine resource development
have become increasingly serious in recent years. In view of the fact that marine
debris is affected by rainfall, river runoff, ocean and atmospheric dynamics and
enters and drifts through the marine system. As a result, the problem of marine
海廢的偵 debris often cannot be successfully managed by a single administrative region or
even a single country, because the work of tracking and tracing back or cleaning
up the waste is more complicated and difficult than the problems on land.
源 測與溯
In this study, we proposed an integrated marine debris observing system and
described the current status of its key technology development. We hope that this
system can be used to identify the types and coordinates of marine debris in a faster
統提案 監測系 整合海 洋廢棄物 and more efficient way, and to improve the traceability of marine debris which drift
by ocean currents and leeway. Eventually, a dynamic map of marine debris will be
built to provide the development of marine debris management plans based on the
spatial, temporal, and typological understanding of marine debris.

Keywords: Marine Debris, met-ocean environment monitoring, microplastic,
object detection and image classification, dynamic marine debris map.

* Corresponding author, E mail: laijw@naor.oac.gov.tw

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