PlasticObs+

Berlin, 06 July 2022

In a tough competition involving more than 300 ideas, the team members

• Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH
• OPTIMARE Systems GmbH
• Jade Hochschule Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth
• everwave GmbH

received from State Secretary Stefan Tidow the official 'go ahead' for the funded research project “PlasticObs+”. The project focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques to detect marine plastic litter by airborne remote sensing.

At the ceremony, which has taken place at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), Tobias Binkele represented OPTIMARE and Helge Adomeit, representing everwave, received the notice of grants on behalf of the whole PlasticObs+ team.

For further information please get in touch with OPTIMARE at info[at]optimare.de .

(Photo: Front Page - Robert Marc Lehmann)