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‘Citizen scientists’ use drones to map El Nino flooding

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  1. The Nature Conservancy has partnered with a San Francisco-area startup called DroneDeploy that will provide a free app to drone owners for consistency. The app will provide automated flight patterns at the touch of a screen while cloud-based technology will make managing so much data feasible, said Ian Smith, a business developer for the company.

    There's an App I can get behind.

    "When you get big winter storm surge like they want to document, you tend to lose a lot of beach," he said. "In a way, it's like doing a documentary on the future. It'll show you what your beaches will look like in 100 years."

    Come on over to the Mid-Atlantic right now and I'll show you your Beach Future.

        1. Yeah, but aren't beaches like (smaller) freshwater lakes, in that they're all eventually doomed even without human intervention?

          1. There'll always be beaches, but beaches move due to longshore sand transport. Especially barrier island beaches. It's the permanent human settlements that are doomed.

          2. Well put. "Hey, I paid a premium for beach-front property and it's disappearing! Somebody call the Corps of Engineers and have them bring it back!"

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