Publications by authors named "Giordano Giorgi"
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- Plastic waste poses a significant environmental threat, especially in marine ecosystems, leading to global monitoring and varying policy responses, such as bans on plastic bags and waste management plans.
- Recent studies highlight the importance of biodegradable plant-derived plastics and investigate carbon stable isotopes in different plastic polymers to improve understanding in polymers research and marine environment monitoring.
- The study finds distinct δC values indicating the source of plastic materials, while degradation processes influence these values; it also emphasizes the advantages of isotope ratio mass spectrometry for analyzing plastics compared to traditional methods.
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008/56/EC) is focused on protection, preservation and restoration of the marine environment by achieving and maintaining Good Environmental Status (GES) by 2020. Within this context, this paper presents a methodological approach for a fast and repeatable monitoring that allows quantitative assessment of seabed abrasion pressure due to recreational boat anchoring. The methodology consists of two steps: a semi-automatic procedure based on an algorithm for the ship detection in SAR imagery and a statistical model to obtain maps of spatial and temporal distribution density of anchored boats.
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