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Drone takes to the skies to image offshore reefs

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25 June 2019
Correction 12 July 2019

Drone takes to the skies to image offshore reefs

Scientists are using uncrewed aircraft to map the topography of Guam’s coral reefs.

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Researchers from NASA and the University of Guam have remotely mapped a large stretch of coral off the coast of the western Pacific island.

Nature 570, 545 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01988-9

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Correction 12 July 2019: An earlier version of this Toolbox gave the wrong affiliation for Ved Chirayath and erroneously implied that the image pictured a ‘fluid cam’.

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