Plastics Remote Sensing Discovery Programme

Innovate UK and its partners have created a series of scoping activities to gather information on how remote sensing is used to understand, monitor, and mitigate plastic litter.

As part of these activities, they are inviting businesses to complete a survey, which aims to gather information on the current challenges surrounding remote sensing techniques for plastic litter studies and the challenges of policy making.

They will use these survey results to craft three webinars/workshops that will discuss how the challenges identified by the survey could be addressed.

The first webinar will take place on Tuesday 18 July 2023 from 2pm to 5pm.

Ultimately, the hope is that this survey and other scoping activities will inform decisions about research needs, funding allocation, or policy development surrounding plastic litter.

For the purposes of this initiative, 'remote sensing' is defined as 'obtaining information about objects or areas from a distance, typically from satellites or drones' and 'plastic litter' as 'plastic products that have been discarded, disposed of, or abandoned'.

See: Plastics Remote Sensing Discovery Programme workshop - Innovate UK KTN (ktn-uk.org)