NASA打造视频游戏，帮助拯救濒临灭绝的珊瑚礁

NASA打造视频游戏，帮助拯救濒临灭绝的珊瑚礁

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、气候变化和其他一些因素的负面影响，研究人员正在尝试各种不同的方法来拯救濒临灭绝的珊瑚礁。现在，美国宇航局正在向电子游戏玩家寻求帮助。

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.

该美国机构发布了一款名为“神经多模态观察和训练网络”(NeMO-Net)的新移动视频游戏，助力绘制全球珊瑚礁地图，以拯救珊瑚礁。游戏玩家将在海洋的不同部分乘坐鹦鹉螺号研究船“潜水”，识别珊瑚礁，观看教育视频并获得徽章，同时帮助NASA的超级计算机识别不同种类的珊瑚。

“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利用了地球上最强大的力量:不是花哨的照相机或超级计算机，而是人，”首席研究员韦德·齐拉亚在一份声明中说。“任何人，甚至是一年级的学生，都可以玩这个游戏，通过整理这些数据，帮助我们绘制出我们所知道的最美丽的生命形式之一。”

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.

这款游戏利用了“流体透镜”相机，这些相机在过去几年里被安装在前往波多黎各、关岛、美属萨摩亚和其他地方探险的无人机或飞机上，以收集海底的3d图像。

“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，超级计算机的绘图能力就越强，”NASA在新闻稿中补充道。一旦它能够从游戏中——包含的低分辨率数据中——准确地对珊瑚进行分类，这台超级计算机将能够以前所未有的分辨率绘制出世界上的珊瑚。有了这张地图，科学家们将更好地了解珊瑚正在发生什么，并找到保护它们的方法。”

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.

这款应用目前可以在苹果的应用商店中使用，适用于iOS和Mac设备。政府机构补充道，Android版本很快就会发布。