Open AccessCoral Reef Video Game Will Help Create Global Database
Author(s) -
Kimberly Cartier
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2018eo112373
Subject(s) - coral reef , reef , coral , fishery , drone , marine life , oceanography , video game , computer science , data science , geography , environmental resource management , environmental science , geology , multimedia , biology , genetics
Players dive off a research boat, identify and classify coral reefs using satellite and drone images, and bring marine life back to reefs. In doing so, they help scientists teach a machine to learn.