1. Research ship
1.1. Large, fossil fuel
1.1.1. DNV Research and Representation Vessel by Atle Ellefsen
1.1.2. DNV BOREAST !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
1.1.3. DNV Catchy !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
1.1.4. Rolls Royce Fishing and Research Vessel
1.1.5. RV Falkor
1.1.6. Polar Stern
1.1.7. Pourquoi pas
1.2. Sail
1.2.1. Rozalia - American Promise
1.2.2. Tara
1.2.3. Algalita ROV
1.2.4. Sea Education Association
1.3. Platform
1.3.1. International Ocean Station !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
1.3.2. SCRIPPS FLIP & Jean Louis Etienne Polar Explorer
1.3.3. Sea Orbiter !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
1.3.4. Unreasonable at sea
2. Waterborne platform
2.1. Wave energy driven
2.1.1. Waveglider
2.1.2. Floating horizon !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
2.2. Wind energy driven
2.2.1. Protei !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
2.2.2. VAIMOS
2.2.3. ROBOAT
2.2.4. Miniature Ocean Observation Platforms
2.3. DRIFTERS
2.3.1. Water deployable
2.3.1.1. Global Drifter Program // ARGO
2.3.1.2. OTR 300
2.3.1.3. Fish & Mammal Tag
2.3.2. Air deployable
2.3.2.1. OTR 600
2.4. Towfish type
2.4.1. SEASOAR // Batfish
2.4.2. AquaShuttle
2.4.3. V-Fins
2.5. Robotic fish type
2.6. ROV SeaRover
2.7. AUV Remus
2.8. Autonomous Moored Platform
3. Collection on land (beach!)
4. Data Mapping
4.1. GIS Algalita
4.2. Ushahidi Type map / Open source mapping
4.3. Google Maps - Eric Schmidt Ocean Institute
5. Waterborne sensor
5.1. Side scan sonar
5.2. Video Plankton Recorder
5.3. (new! Laser) Optical Plankton Counter
5.4. Acoustic methods
5.5. Biogeochemical methods
5.6. Net/Trawl based
5.6.1. Longhurst-Hardy Plankton Recorder (LHPR)
5.6.2. BONGO NET
5.6.3. MOCNET
6. Spaceborne platform
6.1. Geo stationnary Satellite (Fixed point)
6.2. Orbiting Satellite (Mobile)
7. Airborne sensor
7.1. RADAR
7.2. LIDAR
7.3. MULTI SPECTRAL CAMERA
7.4. RGB Camera
7.5. High resolution camera
7.6. Image processing
7.7. Image enhancement
8. Airborne platform
8.1. Copter
8.2. Paraglider
8.3. Kite
8.4. Airballoon
8.5. Aerial survey aircraft
9. Network
9.1. Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network
9.2. FishNET !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
10. Collection at sea
10.1. Small debris collector
10.1.1. Floating Horizon !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
10.1.2. Manta Net
10.1.3. Neuston Net
10.1.4. BOYANT SLAT?? !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
10.2. Large debris collector
10.2.1. BOYANT SLAT?? !! CONCEPT ONLY !!
10.2.2. Waste Free Oceans modified trawls
10.2.3. ROV with a hook + pilot
10.2.4. Upgyre's method??
10.2.5. Self propelled net
10.2.6. Ocean Sweeper