Marine Debris Tracker

WhatistheMarineDebrisTrackerapplication,howdoesitwork?

AccordingtotheintroductionofSoutheastAtlanticMarineDebrisInitiative,MarineDebrisTrackerisaToolsappontheAndroidplatform.Thereiscurrentlya3.15versionreleasedonJun06,2017,youcanseethedetailsbelow.

TheMarineDebrisTrackermobileapplicationandtoolthatallowsyoutohelpmakeadifferencebytellinguswhenyoufindtrashonourcoastlinesandwaterways.Youcaneasilytrackandlogmarinedebrisitemsfromalistofcommondebrisitemsfoundonthebeachorinthewater.Theappisatoolforanycitizen,citizenscientists,andscientists.DataiskeptandanalyzedbytheUniversityofGeorgia.TheapprecordsthedebrislocationthroughGPSandyoucanviewthedataonyourphoneandsubmittotheMarineDebrisTrackerWebsiteforviewinganddownloadlater(requiresregistration,whichyoucandofromtheapp).Yourusernameisshownonthewebsiteforonlythemostrecent5itemstracked,butGPScoordinatesarenotshown.AlldownloadableandmappeddatawithGPScoordinatesisshownanonymouslytothepublic.Youcanalsoshareyourtrackingdatathoughastoryonsocialmedia.Moreinformationisavailableonthewebsiteunder"HowdoIStartTracking?".MarineDebrisTrackerisajointeffortoftheNOAAMarineDebrisProgramandtheSoutheastAtlanticMarineDebrisInitiative(SEA-MDI)outoftheUniversityofGeorgiaCollegeofEngineering.Seeourwebsiteformoreinformationhttp://www.marinedebris.engr.uga.edu/