Saving the Gulf with Helium, String and a Digital Camera
Also published on The Huffington Post
On top of the online reporting system for damage from the BP spill we looked at earlier, here’s more crowdsourcing from the Gulf: a group called Grassroots Mapping is helping folks on the coast map the extent and at least some of the effects of the oil slick. The tools? A digital camera, a big kite or a helium balloon, and a really, really long piece of string. As founder Jeffrey Yoo Warren laid out in a crowd-pleasing presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum conference last week, the group helps local activists assemble $100 kits that will let them take extremely detailed photographs of a given area using a consumer-grade digital camera hung from a kite or balloon suspended as high as several thousand feet in the air.
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