Marine litter (data from LitterWatch)
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DAT-142-en
Created 09 Jun 2015
Published 09 Jun 2015
Last modified 08 Jun 2018
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The European Environment Agency has developed Marine LitterWatch mobile app to collect information on marine litter and strengthen Europe’s knowledge base and thus provide support to European policy making. Marine LitterWatch is a citizen science based app that aims to help fill data gaps in beach litter monitoring.
European data
Marine LitterWatch data
Data collected from the marine LitterWatch mobile app
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Marine LitterWatch download service
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Metadata
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Temporal coverage:
- Dynamic
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Geographic coverage:
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Tags:
- marine litterwatch , marine litter
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Rights:
- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Methodology:
Marine LitterWatch is a citizen science based app that aims to help fill data gaps in beach litter monitoring.
- two-tier approach: monitoring to support official processes and voluntary clean-ups.
- choose from a European master list of commonly found marine litter items, such as cigarette butts, bottles, fishing materials...
- data is submitted through the app to the EEA hosted Marine LitterWatch database.
- data can be extracted, visualised through the EEA website, or embedded in other web pages or applications.
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Data sources
Data is collected via the Marine LitterWatch mobile app:
Marine LitterWatch data is also available via the following download service
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
Additional information
More info at Marine LitterWatch website
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/marine-litter or scan the QR code.
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