Especially due to the unconscious use of petroleum products, the ocean faces
a potential danger: plastic pollution. Plastic pollutes not only the
ocean but also directly the air and foods whilst endangering the ocean
wild-life due to the ingestion and entanglements. Especially, during the last
decade, public initiatives and academic institutions have spent an enormous
time on finding possible solutions to marine plastic pollution. Remote sensing
imagery sits in a crucial place for these efforts since it provides highly
informative earth observation products. Despite this, detection, and monitoring
of the marine environment in the context of plastic pollution is still in its
early stages and the current technology offers possible important development
for the computational efforts. This paper contributes to the literature with a
thorough and rich review and aims to highlight notable literature milestones in
marine debris monitoring applications by promoting the computational imaging
methodology behind these approaches.Comment: 25 pages, 11 figure