SUPR
Threshold-Based Drone Monitoring and Phytoremediation for Beach Wrack and Litter Management (TRAP)
Dnr:

NAISS 2025/22-434

Type:

NAISS Small Compute

Principal Investigator:

Hoi Shing Lo

Affiliation:

Stockholms universitet

Start Date:

2025-03-17

End Date:

2026-04-01

Primary Classification:

10502: Environmental Sciences (Social aspects at 50909 and agricultural at 40504)

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Abstract

TRAP project addresses the escalating challenge of coastal litter and beach wrack, which threaten biodiversity and ecosystem services along Sweden’s coastlines. This 3/4-year research initiative, led by Hoi Shing Lo at Stockholm University’s Department of Environmental Science (ACES), aims to develop innovative, scalable solutions by integrating drone-based monitoring with phytoremediation techniques. Orthomosaic images taken from drones will be processed to identify and quantify litter and wrack at key pollution sites, supported by high-performance computing on the Tetralith supercomputer for image processing and geospatial analysis.