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Scientists Can Now Track Whales From Space

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Counting whales from a ship or a plane has always been difficult, but now scientists may have a new option: using images from space.
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The DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 platform uses extremely high-resolution satellite pictures and image-processing software to detect whales on or near the ocean's surface, according to the report in the journal Plos One.

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