Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Floating Forests

Help with the Kelp, Join in -- be a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist -- http://www.floatingforests.org/

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Continuing GreenPolicy360's "Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist" efforts, we begin to look at 'ocean forests' and need for interactive assistance from _you_.

• "Automated classification methods just don’t produce acceptable levels of accuracy yet.”

Take a look at the newly launched Floating Forest Project -- and a request for help from planet citizens who are willing to volunteer as planet scientists.

Here's the invitation from the Floating Forest website:

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Citizen scientists—recruited via the Internet—are given instruction in how to hunt for giant kelp in satellite imagery.

They (you) are then given Landsat images and asked to outline any giant kelp patches that they find.

Your findings will be crosschecked with those from other citizen scientists and then passed to the Floating Forest 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 up to look for kelp in 328,000 Landsat images...

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GreenPolicy believes this is a planetary moment to jump, do it, sign up, help out!

Put a toe in first, test the waters (the water's fine) -- it could be time to become a "planet citizen, planet scientist"

Floating Forests - Earth Observatory/NASA-Landsat

Origin of Floating Forests Project

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Landsat 8 detects near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot & monitor offshore kelp forests (NASA Earth Observatory image)

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"Kelp are the redwoods of the sea" The world’s largest marine plants regularly grow up to 35 meters (115 feet) tall.

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