00:00Getting samples manually using a boat and a net is time-consuming so the team
00:08at Plymouth Marine Laboratory have just begun testing state-of-the-art
00:12technology. These scientists are using submersibles and satellites to monitor
00:18something you may not be able to spot with the naked eye. They'll deploy two
00:23submersible instruments to automatically take images of plankton as well as take
00:29samples. By increasing their sampling and imaging to round-the-clock monitoring
00:35the team will have a huge wealth of data to analyze. This plankton camera is
00:40called the plankton imager. We've suspended it one meter under the water.
00:45It's imaging all of the objects that it sees, segmenting those images, saving them
00:51and then we're beaming those back to the lab so we can study what the instrument sees.
00:59you
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