The CSIRO has successfully conducted a trial of what it is calling the ‘outback rover’, an autonomous robot on wheels that it is using to calibrate overhead passing satellites on WA's Lake Lefroy. (photos courtesy of the CSIRO)
Footage of the salt lake shot from the rover.
The outback rover can collect thousands of times more data than scientists carrying spectrometers.
The CSIRO hopes that one day a rover will be permanently stationed in a site like Lake Lefroy, to autonomously calibrate overhead passing satellites without human input.
The CSIRO has successfully conducted a trial of what it is calling the ‘outback rover’, an autonomous robot on wheels that it is using to calibrate overhead passing satellites on WA's Lake Lefroy. (photos courtesy of the CSIRO)