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NASA is asking gamers and citizen scientists to help map the world’s corals
May 26, 2020
America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration has called upon ordinary people to help them map the world's coral. The programme, called NeMO-Net, allows users to virtually discover the Ocean's floor in NASA's own research ship, the Nautilus, identifying and classifying types of coral. Coral reefs are among the most complex and diverse ecosystems on the planet.
NASA invites video gamers and citizen scientists to embark on virtual ocean research expeditions to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to better understand these threatened ecosystems.
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During the past several years, researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley have developed new instruments that can look below the ocean surface in more detail than ever before. Using techniques originally developed to look at stars, these "fluid-lensing" cameras use complex calculations to undo the optical distortions created by the water over coral reefs.
NASA has deployed these instruments – mounted on drones or aircraft – on expeditions to Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and elsewhere to collect 3D images of the ocean floor, including corals, algae and seagrass. However, the data alone do not tell the whole story of what's happening to the corals beneath the waves, which is why NASA needs your help.
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