[Coral-List] drone used to photograph reefs

[Nicole Crane]

Just saw a presentation on this while in Guam. Super!
Nicole

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:25 AM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Drone takes to the skies to image offshore reefs
>
>
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01988-9?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20190627&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190627&sap-outbound-id=F6879643729B698E3E09146A03F27DA843F58E1B&mkt-key=005056B0331B1ED782EEA4D8C7ECAFA3
>
>
> open access
>
> (Note the cost and that it may take 6 mo of supercomputer time to analyze
> the data from 5 sq m.  Also doesn't say how deep it can image or how image
> degrades with depth.)
>
> Cheers,  Doug
> --
> Douglas Fenner
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>
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>
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Nicole L. Crane
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Natural and Applied Sciences
www.cabrillo.edu/~ncrane

Senior Conservation Scientist, Project co-lead
One People One Reef
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