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Managing Marine Environmental Pollution using Artificial Intelligence

This review explores how artificial intelligence technologies are being developed to monitor and manage marine environmental pollution, including plastic contamination. The study suggests that AI-based approaches such as automated detection and predictive modeling offer promising opportunities for understanding ocean pollution and supporting sustainability goals.

2021 Maritime Technology and Research 52 citations
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Marine Intelligent Technology as a Strategic Tool for Sustainable Development: A Five-Year Systematic Analysis

This review surveys marine intelligent technology—including autonomous underwater vehicles, sensor networks, and AI-based monitoring systems—as strategic tools for sustainable ocean management, including microplastic detection and marine pollution surveillance.

2025 Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2 citations
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Artificial intelligence for modeling and reducing microplastic in marine environments: A review of current evidence

This review examines how artificial intelligence is being applied to address marine microplastic pollution, including modeling accumulation zones, developing real-time detection systems using remote sensing and robotics, and creating AI-based filtration technologies. The study suggests that while AI holds significant promise for predicting microplastic flows and supporting targeted cleanup efforts, challenges remain around data availability, model refinement, and international collaboration.

2026 Marine Pollution Bulletin
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The supporting role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine/Deep Learning in monitoring the marine environment: a bibliometric analysis

This review examines the supporting role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in monitoring and managing plastic pollution, covering applications in remote sensing, image-based plastic detection, and predictive modeling of plastic fate. The authors identify deep learning for image classification and satellite-based detection as the most rapidly advancing AI applications in plastic pollution science.

2024 Ecological Questions 9 citations
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A Critical Review on Artificial Intelligence—Based Microplastics Imaging Technology: Recent Advances, Hot-Spots and Challenges

Researchers reviewed the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for detecting and identifying microplastics in environmental samples. The study found that AI-based imaging tools can significantly speed up analysis and improve accuracy compared to traditional manual methods. However, challenges remain around standardizing datasets and making these tools accessible for routine environmental monitoring.

2023 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 56 citations
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Microplastic Pollution Studies and Management

This review explores how artificial intelligence is transforming microplastic research, from automating detection in microscopy images and spectral analysis to predicting how plastics interact with pollutants and living organisms. AI-powered sensors and real-time monitoring systems are also being integrated into wastewater treatment to reduce microplastic release, making the technology a powerful tool for both understanding and managing plastic pollution.

2025 Recent Progress in Science and Engineering 2 citations
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Advancing microplastic pollution management in aquatic environments through artificial intelligence

This review examines how artificial intelligence and robotics are being applied to tackle microplastic pollution in aquatic environments, covering waste collection, particle identification, and degradation monitoring. Researchers highlight several successful AI-driven projects deployed by countries and organizations around the world. The study suggests that integrating AI with traditional environmental methods holds significant promise for improving both the speed and accuracy of microplastic management.

2025 Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering 1 citations
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An insight into the Application of AI in maritime and Logistics toward Sustainable Transportation

This review examines the growing application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in maritime and marine environment management. The study covers how AI technologies are being used to improve sustainability, efficiency, and regulatory compliance in the marine industry, including environmental monitoring relevant to pollution tracking.

2024 JOIV International Journal on Informatics Visualization 14 citations
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AI for Monitoring Ocean Plastic Pollution

This review assessed how artificial intelligence technologies—including satellite image analysis, computer vision, and machine learning—are being applied to monitor ocean plastic pollution. The authors found AI can dramatically expand spatial coverage and detection speed compared to traditional ship-based surveys, though ground-truth validation and data standardization remain challenges.

2025 International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
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AI-assisted Microplastics Removal

This review explored how artificial intelligence is being used to improve the detection and removal of microplastics from water and the environment. Researchers found that machine learning techniques can enhance the identification of microplastic particles and optimize treatment processes like filtration and coagulation. The study suggests that AI-driven approaches could overcome many of the efficiency and cost limitations of conventional microplastic removal methods.

2025 Journal of Neuromorphic Intelligence 3 citations
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Approaches for Automatic Microplastics Identification and Characterization

This review examines how artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are being applied to identify, characterize, and model microplastic pollution in the environment. The authors found that these tools can analyze large sensor datasets to detect microplastics in water bodies, predict transport patterns, and model adsorption behavior under various environmental conditions. The study highlights the growing role of computational approaches in understanding and mitigating microplastic contamination.

2024 3 citations
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Advancing environmental sustainability through emerging AI-based monitoring and mitigation strategies for microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems

This review explores how artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, computer vision, and remote sensing, can improve the detection, tracking, and removal of microplastic pollution in waterways. Researchers found that AI-based approaches offer significant advantages over traditional monitoring methods for identifying microplastic distribution patterns. The study highlights the potential of AI-driven robotic systems to support more efficient and scalable environmental cleanup efforts.

2025 World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences 2 citations
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Role of AI in Microplastic Pollution Detection and management studies

This review assessed how artificial intelligence approaches—including machine learning and deep learning—are being applied to detect, identify, and monitor microplastics in environmental and biological samples. The authors found AI substantially accelerates microplastic characterization workflows but that training data quality and standardization across studies remains a limiting factor.

2025
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Microplastic Pollution Control in Lakes: Detection, Prediction and Removal

This review examines how artificial intelligence is being applied to detect, predict, and manage microplastic pollution in lakes. Researchers found that AI tools including computer vision, remote sensing, and machine learning algorithms enable automated identification and real-time monitoring that surpass traditional labor-intensive methods. The study identifies challenges such as data scarcity and model generalization while highlighting AI's potential to transform freshwater microplastic management.

2025 Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology 1 citations
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Advances in machine learning for the detection and characterization of microplastics in the environment

This review examines how machine learning and artificial intelligence are being used to speed up and improve the detection of microplastics in the environment. Techniques like neural networks and computer vision can now automatically identify plastic types and count particles much faster than traditional manual methods, though challenges remain in standardizing these approaches.

2025 Frontiers in Environmental Science 34 citations
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Machine learning in marine ecology: an overview of techniques and applications

This overview examines how machine learning techniques are being applied across marine ecology, covering data types from satellite imagery and acoustics to underwater images and genomic data. Researchers built a database of roughly 1,000 publications to map which techniques work best for different marine research questions. The study highlights that growing data volumes and computing power are making machine learning an increasingly essential tool for understanding ocean ecosystems.

2023 ICES Journal of Marine Science 120 citations
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Smart Ocean Cleanup: An AI-Integrated Autonomous System for Marine Waste Management

This paper presents an AI-powered autonomous boat system designed to detect and collect marine pollution — including plastics, oil spills, and microplastics — using deep learning image classification, IoT sensors, and robotic collection mechanisms. The system demonstrated over 94% accuracy for pollutant detection and classification across several AI models. While focused more broadly on ocean cleanup technology than on microplastic science specifically, it demonstrates how AI-integrated robotics could help address the practical challenge of removing plastic waste from ocean surfaces before it breaks down further.

2025 1 citations
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AI – Driven Marine Debris Detection for Ocean Conservation

Researchers developed an AI-driven marine debris detection system using the YOLOv8 deep learning model trained to identify plastic waste in challenging underwater conditions including low visibility and complex backgrounds. The system aims to provide scalable, automated monitoring to support ocean conservation and guide debris removal efforts.

2025
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Artificial intelligence-empowered collection and characterization of microplastics: A review

This review examines how artificial intelligence tools like robots and machine learning are being used to collect, identify, and characterize microplastic pollution more efficiently. Better detection technology matters for human health because accurately measuring microplastic contamination in water and soil is the first step toward understanding and reducing our exposure.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials 41 citations
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Deep-Sea Debris Identification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Researchers developed a deep convolutional neural network classifier to identify and distinguish deep-sea debris from seafloor imagery, demonstrating that automated AI-based detection can support submersible clean-up operations targeting marine debris in deep-sea environments.

2021 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 42 citations
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Implications of Microplastic Pollution for the Conservation of Marine Protected Areas Authors

This study examines the implications of microplastic pollution for the conservation effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas, investigating whether the presence of microplastics undermines the environmental protection goals of these designated conservation zones.

2024 FIU Undergraduate Research Journal
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Oceanography in the Age of Intelligent Robots and a Changing Climate

Researchers reviewed how robotic and artificial intelligence technologies are transforming ocean exploration, including monitoring of marine pollution such as microplastics. The study highlights how autonomous systems are enabling unprecedented data collection on marine chemistry, physics, geology, and biology, supporting long-term environmental monitoring efforts.

2025 Oceanography 1 citations
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Trace the Pathways of MPs

This book chapter examines how artificial intelligence tools—including machine learning and remote sensing—can be used to trace microplastic transport pathways across environments, improving the accuracy and scale of MP distribution mapping beyond what conventional monitoring can achieve.

2025
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Detecting Chemical Contaminants in Water Using AI

This review examines how artificial intelligence and machine learning tools are being applied to detect chemical contaminants in water, including microplastics, covering sensor technologies, data processing approaches, and the potential for real-time monitoring systems.

2025