Surface Plastic Remote Sensing (SPARSE) Workshop

SPARSE logo with an icon of the globe with plastic in its oceans and a satellite nearby
28 - 30 May 2025 10:00 - 16:30
UTC+01:00
Siena, Italy

The workshop will be held at Santa Chiara Lab, University of Siena, Italy on May 28-30, 2025.

An international workshop sponsored by The European Space Agency, Future Earth, and the Labex CaPPA through IMT Nord Europe; supported by the international program SOLAS and hosted by the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Siena, Italy, in the historical settings of the Santa Chiara Lab in Siena city center.

This 3-day interdisciplinary workshop welcomes researchers and experts across communities to tackle knowledge gaps in plastic pollution monitoring that remote sensing could contribute to fill in, address challenges as well as the need to advance the development of space-based and remote sensing techniques to measure plastics, litter and other pollutants in water and its proximity, thereby identifying hot spots for early mitigation strategies.

Contacts
luisa.galgani@unisi.it
liselotte.tinel@imt-nord-europe.fr
segreteria.dbcf@unisi.it

Venue

Santa Chiara Lab, University of Siena
Via Val di Montone, 1
53100 Siena SI
Italy