Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Help with the Kelp

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

Continuing GreenPolicy360's exploration of our "Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist" endeavor, 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.”

Here is a newly launched Floating Forest Project -- with a request for assistance from planet citizen who are willing to volunteer as planet scientists. Here's is the invitation from the Floating Forest website:

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 ...

GreenPolicy believes this is time to jump, do it, sign up, help out

Put a toe in first, test the waters, the water's fine and you might like how it feels ;-

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

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

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