Having already mapped Antarctica and the North Pole, Google has added panoramic images of coral reefs on Google Street View. Google gathered the materials through the Catlin Seaview Survey, a project designed to study the health of coral reefs. Scientists with the Catlin Group, based in Bermuda, used a trio of wide-angle lenses snapping 24-megapixel photos from each lens. Among the coral reef added to the maps: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay and the Philippines’ Apo Island.
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Google Goes to Great Depths for Watery Maps
Posted by: David Vranicar September 26, 2012 09:18 AMHaving already mapped Antarctica and the North Pole, Google has added panoramic images of coral reefs on Google Street View. Google gathered the materials through the Catlin Seaview Survey, a project designed to study the health of coral reefs. Scientists with the Catlin Group, based in Bermuda, used a trio of wide-angle lenses snapping 24-megapixel photos from each lens. Among the coral reef added to the maps: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay and the Philippines’ Apo Island.