| Summary: | Maintenance and Update Frequency: none-planned Statement: Photos used in this study were taken from vantage points from land, vessels and drones launched from land. Vessel and land-based photos consisted of lateral images of the bodies, while drone images consisted of aerial overhead shots of whales. Photographs were contributed to the SouWEST (Southwest Whale Ecology Study; http://souwest.org) Southern Right Whale catalogue (curated by C. Burton at Western Whale Research since 1991). Contributors include authors of this report, and those listed in the Acknowledgements including whale watching operators and volunteers that are part of the long-term citizen science program established and coordinated by Western Whale Research and is part of SouWEST. In total, over 2600 photographs of southern right whales were available for this project, the majority of which were from Flinders Bay and Geographe Bay regions. All locations of photos were documented, in addition to the date. All photographs were imported into an Adobe Lightroom Classic CC Version 6.12 (2017) Library created for curation, processing and matching. Collections within the Library were created for each location, and folders were created for each date within each collection. After importing photographs into the relevant folders within their respective collections, all very poor-quality photos in which distinguishing features of southern right whales were not discernible were removed. Each photograph in the Library was then labelled using the key word feature available in Lightroom to code the following attributes: Group Encounter Number (beginning with 1 to the last for each survey day), Individual Number (for each group, beginning with 1 to the last within the group), Image Quality Criteria (see Appendix A), and southern right whale features including Gender, Colour of Body, Dorsal Blaze Presence and Colour, Coaming shape and texture, Bonnet erosion, the Number of Right and Left Island Callosities, Left and Right Bar Island Callosity Presence/Absence, ...
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