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