I use an artificial intelligence approach to detect plastic in the sea in freely available Sentinel-2 satellite images. My work already won an award in mid-May 2019: my submission was awarded second prize in the Marine environment category at the Sentinel Hub Custom Script Contest!

But I need much more time to perfect it until it is really useful.

With this goal, I’m starting a campaign to raise funds to offset my cost of living. I promise to improve my algorithm and to make it freely available for all to use if the campaign succeeds. Depending on how much time I can devote to this, I plan to document the process and release the source code for the community to improve it.

https://www.gofundme.com/OceanPlasticDetector

Please share this link widely and add some personal comment to reach as many as possible with my request! Thank you,

Bence Mélykúti, DPhil

Data visualisation meets children’s curiosity. I immersed myself in geoinformatics to find out how postal services in the USA, in Germany and in Hungary carved their countries into mosaics of postal code areas. Visually striking maps emerge from the opaque depths of numerical data. Do enjoy and please share.

OpenStreetMap provided me with the data for Germany and Hungary. What a resource! I learnt a lot about querying the database. Many thanks to the designers, programmers, contributors!

https://melykuti.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/santas-christmas-delivery-route-revealed/