Rummaging through the bin: Modelling marine litter distribution using Artificial Neural Networks.
MEDITS
Machine learning
Mediterranean
Multilayer perceptron
Self-organizing maps
Journal
Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2019
Dec 2019
Historique:
received:
15
07
2019
revised:
06
09
2019
accepted:
07
09
2019
pubmed:
24
9
2019
medline:
6
2
2020
entrez:
24
9
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Marine litter has significant ecological, social and economic impacts, ultimately raising welfare and conservation concerns. Assessing marine litter hotspots or inferring potential areas of accumulation are challenging topics of marine research. Nevertheless, models able to predict the distribution of marine litter on the seabed are still limited. In this work, a set of Artificial Neural Networks were trained to both model the effect of environmental descriptors on litter distribution and estimate the amount of marine litter in the Central Mediterranean Sea. The first goal involved the use of self-organizing maps in order to highlight the importance of environmental descriptors in affecting marine litter density. The second goal was achieved by developing a multilayer perceptron model, which proved to be an efficient method to estimate the regional quantity of seabed marine litter. Results demonstrated that machine learning could be a suitable approach in the assessment of the marine litter issues.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31546112
pii: S0025-326X(19)30728-3
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110580
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Waste Products
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
110580Informations de copyright
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