Optical Methods for Marine Litter Detection (OPTIMAL) - Final Report

This is the Final Report of the European Space Agency (ESA) project OPTIMAL, funded by the ESA General Studies Programme (GSP), with contract no. 4000120879/17/NL/PS. The OPTIMAL project investigated the feasibility of Remote Sensing of Marine Litter, in particular marine plastic. The Final Report provides a summary of the work carried out in this project, and it includes a brief introduction to the scientific background, development of user requirements and main results from the experimental and modelling phases, scientific impact and assessment, concluding with a forward look and final remarks.