Returning the Great to the Great Barrier Reef
Summary:
The latest victim of global warming, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is under serious threat, and its outlook is dire. The challenge in conserving the Reef has been partly due to the lack of a complete map of the GBR’s topography. That may change with an eCognition-based mapping technique that’s enabled one project team to produce the world’s first-ever topographic map of the GBR.
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