Title:	Threshold-Based Drone Monitoring and Phytoremediation for Beach Wrack and Litter Management (TRAP)
DNr:	NAISS 2025/22-434
Project Type:	NAISS Small Compute
Principal Investigator:	Hoi Shing Lo <hoishing.lo@aces.su.se>
Affiliation:	Stockholms universitet
Duration:	2025-03-17 – 2026-04-01
Classification:	10502
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Abstract

TRAP project addresses the escalating challenge of coastal litter and beach wrack, which threaten biodiversity and ecosystem services along Sweden’s coastlines. This 3/4-year research initiative, led by Hoi Shing Lo at Stockholm University’s Department of Environmental Science (ACES), aims to develop innovative, scalable solutions by integrating drone-based monitoring with phytoremediation techniques. Orthomosaic images taken from drones will be processed to identify and quantify litter and wrack at key pollution sites, supported by high-performance computing on the Tetralith supercomputer for image processing and geospatial analysis.