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FluidCam - seeing through wavy surfaces clearly

Accepted submission by JoeMerchant at 2018-07-22 03:06:17 from the Because it's just so damn cool dept.
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NASA scientists have demonstrated FluidCam [nasa.gov] 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 [chasingcoral.com] 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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