Last day of the experiment

Experiment Log 2019

27/06/2019 Our team gathered at Tsamakia beach at 09:00 am. Today was our last day of the experiment and the plan was to obtain data from UAV and Sentinel-2 satellite images. Unfortunately, the...

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Twelfth day of our experiment

Experiment Log 2019

22/06/2019 Due to bad weather conditions (~80% of cloud coverage), the experiment was put on hold. Today’s experiment would have been executed with two targets made out of plastic bottles and...

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Eleventh day of our experiment

Experiment Log 2019

17/06/2019 Today our team gathered at Tsamakia beach at 9 am. This time four targets of 5x5m were deployed in a square pattern resulting in a big 10x10m target. Two targets were covered with Reeds...

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Tenth day of our experiment

Experiment Log 2019

12/06/2019 Due to bad weather conditions, the experiment was put on hold. However our team did some field work such as constructing a 1x5m target in order to work with volume estimation....

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Ninth day of our experiment

Experiment Log 2019

07/06/2019 Celebrating tommorow’s World Oceans Day 2019 the PLP19 group organized today’s experiment with an informative and educational scope. The rector of the University of the Aegean...

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Eigth day of our experiment

Experiment Log 2019

02/06/2019 Today our team gathered at Tsamakia beach at 9 am. Due to bad weather conditions (Nearly 100% of cloud coverage), the experiment was put on hold. However our team did some field work...

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Volume estimation experiment

Experiment Log 2019

30/05/2019 Today we performed the second marine litter volume estimation experiment. Because the satellite Sentinel-2 was not scheduled to pass over the study area we could not deploy the buoyant...

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Seventh day of our experiment

Experiment Log 2019

28/05/2019 Today our team gathered at Tsamakia beach at 9 am. This day, four targets (5x5m) were deployed in pairs (two targets covered with plastic bottles and the other two with plastic bags)....

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Sixth day of our experiment

Experiment Log 2019

23/05/2019 On 23/05 at 09:00 am the weather was cloudy with light rain showers and the experiment had to be postponed until the 28th of May. At that day the iteration will have the same...

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