Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
- Help with the Kelp
Join in -- be a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist -- http://www.floatingforests.org/
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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.”
Take a look at the 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 (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...
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 -- it could be time to become a "planet citizen, planet scientist"...
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/FloatingForests/page1.php
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php
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Landsat 8 can detect near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot & monitor offshore kelp forests (NASA Earth Observatory image)
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