Emerging Technologies for Remote Sensing of Floating and Submerged Plastic Litter
, Victor MartÃnez-Vicente 2, Heidi M. Dierssen 3, Valentina Raimondi 4, Erio Gandini 5, Robert Foster 6 and Ved Chirayath 7
Davida Streett
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThis review of 7 emergent techniques is insightful, thoughtful, well referenced, concise and fairly detailed. They also look at the detection of proxies for marine debris, including a very well-organized and helpful discussion of processes that aggregate marine debris and whose detection by satellite/aircraft sensors can serve as an indication of the presence of marine debris. I have no hesitation in recommending this review for publication.
Author Response
We thank the Reviewer for reviewing our paper and their positive report.
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThis is a nice review paper on remote sensing of marine plastic litter. Perhaps some more discussion on why it is important to observe plastic litter would be useful.
Author Response
We thank the Reviewer for the positive review of our paper and useful comment. We added some more information on why it is important to observe plastic to the introduction and section 4 (review of detection capabilities).
