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a lot of us who are drone enthusiasts and who work in the drone industry are really excited about the idea of drones for good I want to know what are the impacts of sea level rise on our coastline so we're asking people to go out take pictures and then send it to us so we can use it to help predict and prepare for impacts of climate change they do capture metadata like specifically GPS location so even a picture that's GPS tagged that shows a coastline somewhere is useful data but I think what's really powerful is mapping from the air you if you have a DJI drone the simplest thing to do is to download our app and you can just draw a square around an area of coastline and just press go and we will make the drone take off fly capture data in the past you could go up in a helicopter or plane and look at the whole coastline but you couldn't hover above something you know like an exposed rock or tide pool and the way it's coming over it it's important to know how and where the impacts are going to be most severe so we can prepare for it we can build coastal defenses using dunes and wetlands to help protect communities you