NASA打造視頻游戲，幫助拯救瀕臨滅絕的珊瑚礁

NASA打造視頻游戲，幫助拯救瀕臨滅絕的珊瑚礁

Researchers are trying a number of different ways to save endangered coral reefs from dying off, as they’re negatively impacted by ocean pollution, climate change and several other factors. Now, NASA is asking video game players for help.

由于受到海洋污染、氣候變化和其他一些因素的負面影響，研究人員正在嘗試各種不同的方法來拯救瀕臨滅絕的珊瑚礁。現(xiàn)在，美國宇航局正在向電子游戲玩家尋求幫助。

The US agency announced a new mobile video game, entitled “Neural Multi-Modal Observation and Training Network” or NeMO-Net, to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to save them. Gamers will take “dives” on the Nautilus research vessel in different parts of the ocean, identify the reefs, watch educational videos and earn badges, while aiding a NASA supercomputer to recognize different species of coral by itself.

該美國機構(gòu)發(fā)布了一款名為“神經(jīng)多模態(tài)觀察和訓練網(wǎng)絡”(NeMO-Net)的新移動視頻游戲，助力繪制全球珊瑚礁地圖，以拯救珊瑚礁。游戲玩家將在海洋的不同部分乘坐鸚鵡螺號研究船“潛水”，識別珊瑚礁，觀看教育視頻并獲得徽章，同時幫助NASA的超級計算機識別不同種類的珊瑚。

“NeMO-Net leverages the most powerful force on this planet: not a fancy camera or a supercomputer, but people,” said principal investigator Ved Chirayath in a statement. “Anyone, even a first grader, can play this game and sort through these data to help us map one of the most beautiful forms of life we know of.”

“NeMO-Net利用了地球上最強大的力量:不是花哨的照相機或超級計算機，而是人，”首席研究員韋德·齊拉亞在一份聲明中說。“任何人，甚至是一年級的學生，都可以玩這個游戲，通過整理這些數(shù)據(jù)，幫助我們繪制出我們所知道的最美麗的生命形式之一。”

The game utilizes “fluid-lensing” cameras that have been placed on drones or aircraft over the past several years in expeditions to Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and elsewhere to gather 3-D images of the ocean floor.

這款游戲利用了“流體透鏡”相機，這些相機在過去幾年里被安裝在前往波多黎各、關(guān)島、美屬薩摩亞和其他地方探險的無人機或飛機上，以收集海底的3d圖像。

“The more people who play NeMO-NET, the better the supercomputer’s mapping abilities become,” NASA added in the release. “Once it has been able to accurately classify corals from low-resolution data included in the game, the supercomputer will be able to map out the world’s corals at an unprecedented resolution. With that map, scientists will better understand what is happening to corals and find ways to preserve them.”

“玩NeMO-NET的人越多，超級計算機的繪圖能力就越強，”NASA在新聞稿中補充道。一旦它能夠從游戲中——包含的低分辨率數(shù)據(jù)中——準確地對珊瑚進行分類，這臺超級計算機將能夠以前所未有的分辨率繪制出世界上的珊瑚。有了這張地圖，科學家們將更好地了解珊瑚正在發(fā)生什么，并找到保護它們的方法。”

The app is currently available on Apple’s App Store, available for iOS and Mac devices. An Android version will come soon, the government agency added.

這款應用目前可以在蘋果的應用商店中使用，適用于iOS和Mac設(shè)備。政府機構(gòu)補充道，Android版本很快就會發(fā)布。