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February 14, 2014 05:18 pm GMT

Scientists Can Now Track Whales From Space

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Counting whales from a ship or a plane has always been difficult, but now scientists may have a new option: using images from space.

Using space images broadens the viewpoint — and the system is automated.

The DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 platform uses extremely high-resolution satellite pictures and image-processing software to detect whales on or near the ocean's surface, according to the report in the journal Plos One.

A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey did a test count on southern right whales in the Golfo Nuevo on the coast of Argentina, and found that the automated system captured 89% of the whales spotted in a manual search of the images. Read more...

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