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Latest revision as of 20:45, 16 March 2021
Help with the Kelp
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 are reviewing 328,000 Landsat images ...
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