Fishing & Data

Fishing & Data

Fishing boats outfitted for citizen data collection.
http://goo.gl/P0xqlR

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Originally shared by David Amerland

Gone Fishing

I frequently mention that we live in a semantic world where data flows through everything uniting the offline and online interface into a seamless whole. Here is a great example where technology that's 150 years old, through an app, transforms a humble fishing boat into an oceanographic research vessel, a crawler beaming back data about the abundance of life in the seas. 

The information, relayed cheaply, this way is used to make decisions about fishing quotas, the health of the oceans, the ability of the planet to survive our presence. All it takes is, actually, connectivity. 

What we get back is granularity in what we see which is leading us to change our perception about  our own planet. 

Dive in for the full picture: http://goo.gl/0lnVUE