覺得這圖好可愛
鯨鯊的點點真的很像星圖
所以原來*0*鯨鯊的ID係用NASA的software來認
覺得好酷呢
//Star-Mapping Algorithms Track Endangered Animals
a whale shark
To track endangered whale sharks, marine biologists photograph patterns of white spots on a shark’s skin, which are as unique to whale sharks as fingerprints are to humans. But examining and matching the photographs by eye is tedious and time consuming. So a software programmer teamed up with a NASA astronomer to take a star-matching algorithm developed for Hubble and modified it to recognize the spots on individual whale sharks. This has helped observers across the globe catalog over 43,000 encounters with more than 8,800 different whale sharks over two decades. Researchers have adapted this algorithm to track other types of endangered sharks and giant sea bass that also have distinctive spot patterns on their skin.//
