Satellite imagery is helping to detect plastic pollution in the ocean

Mongabay
May 1, 2020, 3:34 am186 pts
In 2018, Lauren Biermann was scouring a satellite image of the ocean off the coast of the Isle of May, Scotland, searching for signs of floating seaweed for a project at her university. Her eyes were drawn to lines of white dots gently curving along an ocean front. “It was weird because I was seeing floating…

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