Mapping the Great Barrier Reef with cameras, drones and NASA tech
New and old technologies reveal what's killing Australia's great marine wonder.
by
Jennifer Bisset
October 24, 2017 6:00 PM PDT
This is part of our series "Rebooting the Reef" on efforts to save one of the world's greatest natural wonders.
Richard Vevers, a British underwater photographer, was horrified when he returned in 2015 to a colourful reef in American Samoa he had shot a year earlier. It had turned pure white.
Vevers, who runs a marine advocacy group called The Ocean Agency, knew bleaching, a process caused by global warming that starves coral, was the cause. He also knew the public didn't understand the ocean's sorry shape because it couldn't see what was going on. Cameras, he reckoned, could help.
https://www.cnet.com/news/mapping-australias-great-barrier-reef-with-cameras-drones-nasa-tech/
