Pics, shoots and leaves: Ecologists turn digital cameras into climate change tools
Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 20:30
in Mathematics & Economics
As digital cameras become better and cheaper, ecologists are turning these ubiquitous consumer devices into scientific tools to study how forests are responding to climate change. And, they say, digital cameras could be a cost-effective way of visually monitoring the spread of tree diseases. The results -- which come from 38,000 photographs -- are presented at this week's British Ecological Society's Annual Meeting at the University of Birmingham.