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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 23 2018, @05:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Because-it's-just-so-damn-cool dept.

NASA scientists have demonstrated FluidCam as a drone based solution to provide sharp, clear imagery of coral reefs from a drone's eye view.

Watch the video, write your own transcripts, summaries and criticisms in the comments. It's image processing, it's drone based, they're working toward making it satellite based. I want to know how well it deals with moving objects in the field of view (like fish), but now that the reefs are mostly dead or dying I guess there aren't that many fish on them to worry about anymore? There certainly weren't any fish in the pictures on the video.

Bonus points to the first comment that links to some hard science papers on the topic, the link above is just a NASA "gee isn't this cool" video.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Immerman on Monday July 23 2018, @10:36PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Monday July 23 2018, @10:36PM (#711473)

    Didn't we just have an article about a ground-based telescope that dramatically outperforms Hubble using some kind of dynamic correction?

    Seems like such systems could be used to look down at Earth from orbit as well, though the details might need to be reworked.

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