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Hyperspectral imaging and data analysis for detecting and determining plastic contamination in seawater filtrates
Title (original)
Hyperspectral imaging and data analysis for detecting and determining plastic contamination in seawater filtrates
Description
The objective of this paper is to monitor plastic particles in sea water by imaging spectroscopic measurements on filtrates. Filters from seawater sampling can be imaged in many wavelengths and that a multivariate data analysis can give information on (1) spatial location of plastic material on the filter and (2) composition of the plastic materials. This paper reports on simulated samples with spiked reference plastic particles, and real seawater filtrates containing microplastic pollutants. This is the first study to demonstrate that hyperspectral imaging techniques can be used to study microplastics down to 300µm, which is a common size limit used in microplastic surveys.
Authors
Therese M. Karlsson, Hans Grahn, Bert van Bavel, Paul Geladi
Publication year
2016
Resource type
Scientific publication
Language
English
Areas of knowledge
Monitoring of marine litter
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