Taking pictures of plankton

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Some are so tiny, they’re invisible to the naked eye.   But for scientists to study and understand what’s happening to this vital organism, they need a huge wealth of data.   Plymouth Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom are using an automated underwater device to take samples and send back pictures.   Watch the full RAZOR episode on our YouTube channel - just look for RAZOR science show.    #razor #razor_science #razor_science_show #razorscienceshow  #science #sciencetok #plankton #plymouth #marineecology #climatechange #artificialintelligence #oceanconservation #flowcytobot

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00:00Getting samples manually using a boat and a net is time-consuming so the team

00:08at Plymouth Marine Laboratory have just begun testing state-of-the-art

00:12technology. These scientists are using submersibles and satellites to monitor

00:18something you may not be able to spot with the naked eye. They'll deploy two

00:23submersible instruments to automatically take images of plankton as well as take

00:29samples. By increasing their sampling and imaging to round-the-clock monitoring

00:35the team will have a huge wealth of data to analyze. This plankton camera is

00:40called the plankton imager. We've suspended it one meter under the water.

00:45It's imaging all of the objects that it sees, segmenting those images, saving them

00:51and then we're beaming those back to the lab so we can study what the instrument sees.

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