Images of “micro-monsters” living in Loch Ness have been captured for the first time using a state-of-the-art digital holographic camera.
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen recently teamed up with The Loch Ness Centre in an effort to discover more about what is lurking in the world famous waters.
Using technology called the weeHoloCam – a device that can take thousands of digital holographic images in one dive – they were able to capture holographic images of the microbial life living in Loch Ness.
Once the dive was completed, the latest in artificial intelligence techniques is then used to classify the images of the plankton particles that were captured on the holographic camera.
“A traditional camera has a very short focus and you have to take several photographs at different times to capture a scene,” Emeritus Professor Jon Watson, part of the team of Aberdeen engineers, said in a press release. “With a hologram, an entire volume is recorded in …