n a world first, a satellite-based global coral reef bleaching monitoring system will scan the Earth’s oceans for coral-killing
bleaching events in real-time.
Dr Chris Roelfsema, from UQ’s Remote Sensing Research Centre, said the digital atlas tool was desperately needed, given the state of the world’s coral reefs.
“The current prognosis for the world’s coral reefs is bleak,” Dr Roelfsema said.
“With ever-warming, more polluted and acidic oceans, models predict that 70 per cent to 90 per cent of coral reefs will be lost by 2050.
