Google Street View To Reveal Great Barrier Reef [PICS]

23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone in Culture, Nature, Very Cool, Vibe, World

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Google Street View is pretty great! It lets me see rural villages, the National Gallery in London, post-crisis Fukushima, and your house. And soon, in collaboration with the Catlin Seaview Survey, it’ll be letting people explore Great Barrier Reef as part of the expanding ‘Seaview’ project.

The Catlin Seaview Survey is studying the composition of coral reefs on the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea – but they’ll be simultaneously broadcasting their findings through Google Maps. Once the expedition – launching in September – finishes up, they’ll have uploaded about 50 000 coral reef panoramas to Google Earth and Google Maps.

They’ll be using specially-designed squid-like robot cameras to dive into the deep-water reefs, travelling at aroun 4km/h, and taking 360-degree, geo-tagged panoramas every four to six seconds.

Some demo panoramas from Heron Island have been put up, to show off  just how cool the technology is – take a look over here.

[Source: WIRED]

 

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