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Landsat 8 can detect near-infrared wavelengths of light that make it easier to spot offshore kelp forests. (NASA Earth Observatory image)  
Landsat 8 can detect near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot and monitor offshore kelp forests. (NASA Earth Observatory image)  


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Revision as of 15:50, 14 January 2015

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Help with the Kelp

Join in -- become a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist -- http://www.floatingforests.org/

"Automated classification methods just don’t produce acceptable levels of accuracy yet.” Kyle Cavanaugh, UCLA

Citizen scientists—recruited via the Internet—are given instruction in how to hunt for giant kelp in satellite imagery. They are then given Landsat images and asked to outline any giant kelp patches that they find. Their findings are crosschecked with those from other citizen scientists and then passed to the science team for verification. The size and location of these forests are catalogued and used to study global kelp trends.

As of January 11, 2015, more than 3,400 citizen scientists had joined Byrnes and Cavanaugh to look for kelp in 328,000 Landsat images ...

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/FloatingForests/page1.php

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php

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Santabarbarakelp oli 2013140.jpg

Landsat 8 can detect near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot and monitor offshore kelp forests. (NASA Earth Observatory image)

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Planet API | #PlanetAPI | Planet Citizen | #PlanetCitizen

GreenPolicy360 | #Earth360 | #EarthImaging | #EarthMonitoring

GP360 | #EarthObservations | #EarthScience | #NewSpace

#EarthPOV | Earth Point of View


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