Monitoring GBH on the GBR

ABC reports newly available [sea surface] temperature data at a resolution down to one square kilometre (Satellite imagery helps climate change reef study). How far will a more refined picture be useful to the likes of Charles Sheppard, Tom Goreau and others monitoring rates of damage and destruction?

The BBC reports Sensors to watch the Great Barrier Reef. Will this amount to anything more than a snuff movie for those who can be bothered to watch?