Map the global coral

Scientists have published a series of unique photos about the coral world in the 'Caltin Seaview Survey' project (Caltin Sea Vision Survey) with the aim of mapping the world-wide map and studying the great life positive.

The team embarked on the work of mapping Australia's giant Barrier coral reef in September 2012, using a deep-sea diving robot along with high-tech cameras, called SeaView SVII.

Some images of the giant coral reef Barrier are captured by high-tech cameras

Scientists say the high-tech SeaView SVII camera has revolutionized the ocean, automating images with high sharpness that no camera has ever done before.

Under-ocean images taken with 360-degree angles every three seconds, the camera will accurately record the position and orientation of the photo with a GPS device, allowing scientists to accurately assess the health status of Coral reef.

More than 50,000 photos in the expedition 20 coral reefs will be "stitched" together by a special software. From there the image of the coral map will appear on Google Earth.

Hoegh - Guldberg, one of the marine biologists, said: 'We are now halfway through the journey. Meanwhile you will take 100 years to do this with ordinary divers along with normal cameras ".

Observing and studying a number of remote coral reefs in the world will allow scientists to correctly answer the question: when, where and why it is so important. gender is declining.