{"id":1390,"date":"2008-08-14T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2008-08-14T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:12:20","slug":"coastal-watch-gets-1-million-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Watch Gets $1 Million Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/beach-cam.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/beach-cam.jpg','popup','width=344,height=249,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/beach-cam-tm.jpg\" height=\"144\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Beach Cam\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve tried to think of all kinds of ways to monetize surf web cams, but there is nothing better than someone just handing over $1 million. Even if they are Australian dollars. <\/p>\n<p>According to as story on Goldcoast.com.au, the <strong>Queensland Government&#8217;s Smart State Innovation Projects Fund<\/strong> has handed the money to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalwatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coastal Watch&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Chris Lane<\/strong> (pictured right) to help &#8220;keep beaches safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of that will go to fund the technology which will allow Coastal Watch cameras to count the number of beach users at a particular break, measure wave height, and the shoreline position hourly. . . .It will also provide real-time pictures of beaches which allow lifesavers to monitor areas from their clubhouse. . . &#8220;It&#8217;s good to be able to help out surfers to find the best surf or boaties where the chop is,&#8221; said Mr Lane, &#8220;but it&#8217;s great to be able to help keep people safe when they go to the beach<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right. And it&#8217;s great to have another $1 million, right? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline<\/a><\/strong>. . . . you listening?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2008\/08\/14\/14961_gold-coast-top-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve tried to think of all kinds of ways to monetize surf web cams, but there is nothing better than someone just handing over $1 million. Even if they are Australian dollars. According to as story on Goldcoast.com.au, the Queensland Government&#8217;s Smart State Innovation Projects Fund has handed the money to Coastal Watch&#8217;s Chris Lane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}