Toward Large-Scale Autonomous Marine Pollution Monitoring

Marine pollution is a growing worldwide concern, affecting the health of marine ecosystems, human health, and weather patterns. To reduce underwater pollution, it critical to have access accurate information about extent pollutants, as otherwise appropriate countermeasures cleaning measures cannot be chosen. Currently, such difficult acquire existing monitoring solutions are highly laborious or costly, limited specific spatial temporal resolution. In this article, we present research vision large-scale autonomous that uses coordinated groups vehicles monitor characteristics pollutants. We highlight key requirements reference technologies establish roadmap for realizing vision. also address feasibility our vision, carrying out controlled experiments classification pollutants collaborative processing, two challenges