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- Title
Citizen Science for Marine Litter Detection and Classification on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images.
- Authors
Merlino, Silvia; Paterni, Marco; Locritani, Marina; Andriolo, Umberto; Gonçalves, Gil; Massetti, Luciano
- Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV, aka drones) are being used for mapping macro-litter in the environment. As drone images require a manual processing task for detecting marine litter, it is of interest to evaluate the accuracy of non-expert citizen science operators (CSO) in performing this task. Students from Italian secondary schools (in this work, the CSO) were invited to identify, mark, and classify stranded litter items on a UAV orthophoto collected on an Italian beach. A specific training program and working tools were developed for the aim. The comparison with the standard in situ visual census survey returned a general underestimation (50%) of items. However, marine litter bulk categorisation was fairly in agreement with the in situ survey, especially for sources classification. The concordance level among CSO ranged between 60% and 91%, depending on the item properties considered (type, material, and colour). As the assessment accuracy was in line with previous works developed by experts, remote detection of marine litter on UAV images can be improved through citizen science programs, upon an appropriate training plan and provision of specific tools.
- Subjects
CITIZEN science; MARINE sciences; MARINE debris; DRONE aircraft; CLASSIFICATION; WASTE management
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 23, p3349
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w13233349