The more serious side of Mr Coetzee's exploits was the mapping of these remote rivers and analysisof their water, to help ensure that villagers had clean, accessible supplies.
Usess of the Airware technology, which started shipping last November, so far include agricultural drones that use image analysis to decrease waste ofwater and increase crop yields.
Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysisof Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming.