Dans les brèves de Carto n°21 (toujours) cette info sur l’utilisation de drone pour la cartographie des coraux par une équipe de Stanford.
Stanford drones open way to new world of coral research
▻http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/coral-reefs-drones-101613.html
The secret to unlocking these mysteries may lie with a shoebox-size flying robot.
The robot in question is a four-rotor remote-controlled drone developed by Stanford aeronautics graduate student Ved Chirayath. The drone is outfitted with cameras that can film coral reefs from up to 200 feet in the air. Chirayath teamed up with Stanford Woods Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Palumbi to pioneer the use of drone technology to precisely map, measure and study shallow-water reefs off Ofu Island in American Samoa.
Avec l’étudiant en aéronautique en plongeur-photographe
et un échantillon de photo prise par le #drone
