NASA Laser Can Map Sea Floor and Could Help Monitor Health of Coral Reefs

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Last month NASA mission scientists began to map the shallow sea floors around the world’s coastlines. The NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite’s green laser beam, penetrating up to 40 meters into the ocean, will generate bathymetric data that could be game changing, especially for mapping coral reefs and monitoring their health, says Greg Asner, an ecologist at […]
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