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Kelp mapping

Published 1:30 am Saturday, June 20, 2026

By Steve Mullensky For Peninsula Daily News

Joe Roubal of Port Townsend, a retired cartographer and programmer, recovers his drone after a 15-minute flight over kelp beds about 400 meters off North Beach in Port Townsend on Wednesday. The drone was programmed to fly a specific route while taking photos every two seconds. Roubal wrote a computer program to process the images for study and mapping. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Joe Roubal of Port Townsend, a retired cartographer and programmer, recovers his drone after a 15-minute flight over kelp beds about 400 meters off North Beach in Port Townsend on Wednesday. The drone was programmed to fly a specific route while taking photos every two seconds. Roubal wrote a computer program to process the images for study and mapping. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Joe Roubal of Port Townsend, a retired cartographer and programmer, recovers his drone after a 15-minute flight over kelp beds about 400 meters off North Beach in Port Townsend on Wednesday.

The drone was programmed to fly a specific route while taking photos every two seconds. Roubal wrote a computer program to process the images for study and mapping.

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