Speeding swarms of sensor robots
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 07:01
in Earth & Climate
Concerns about the spread of radiation from damaged Japanese nuclear reactors even as scientists are still trying to assess the consequences of the year-old Deepwater Horizon oil spill have provided a painful reminder of just how important environmental monitoring can be. But collecting data on large expanses of land and sea can require massive deployments of resources.