7 articles
How to plan, fly and process a drone survey over kelp canopy — tides, sun glint, polarisers, ground control — for maps you can compare year after year.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Turn a consumer drone and free GIS software into a farm record that tracks lines, growth and problems — and makes every season smarter than the last.
Naomi Reyes ·
Every March we fly every southern-hemisphere site at peak canopy. Twelve flights a day, dawn tides, and a data pipeline that turns pixels into a season's verdict.
Jack Callum ·
A week flying multispectral drone surveys over Mendocino's recovering bull kelp: fog windows, canopy maths, and where the map still needs divers.
Jack Callum ·
How drones turn a seaweed farm from guesswork into measurement — canopy mapping, biomass proxies, storm damage surveys and a flying workflow that works.
Naomi Reyes ·
Satellites have tracked giant kelp canopies since the 1980s. How remote sensing maps kelp forests, feeds carbon accounting, and where the pixels stop short.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
For one week at Tinderbox we counted the same kelp canopy twice — once by drone, once by diver. Here's what each method caught, missed and taught us.
Jack Callum ·