Adelie penguin occupancy survey of islands along the Knox Coast, 2011

• Other Authors: AADC (owner), AADC, DATA OFFICER (distributor), AADC, DATA OFFICER (custodian), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (hasAssociationWith), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher), Australian Antarctic Division (sponsor), EMMERSON, LOUISE (collaborator), EMMERSON, LOUISE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SOUTHWELL, COLIN (collaborator), SOUTHWELL, COLIN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SOUTHWELL, COLIN (author), Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (originator)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS; CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS > BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY; COLONIES; CAMERAS; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; SATELLITES; LANDSAT; QUICKBIRD > DigitalGlobe's QuickBird; AIRCRAFT; AMD; AMD/AU; CEOS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-coast-2011/2819445

Progress Code: completed Statement: It was not possible to geo-reference oblique photos to satellite images perfectly. The colony boundaries are less accurate than those derived from vertical aerial photography (eg Vestfolds and Rauers) or ground survey (eg Robinsons). An occupancy survey in December 2009-February 2010 and January 2011 found a total of 6 islands along the Knox coast had populations of breeding Adelie penguins. The survey in 2009/10 was conducted from a fixed wing aircraft and oblique aerial photographs were taken of occupied sites. The aerial photographs were geo-referenced to satellite images or the coastline shapefile from the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA, tile E157) and the boundaries of penguin colonies were digitised from the geo-referenced photos. Details for each island are: Merrit: Photographs taken on 1 February 2010 and geo-referenced to LIMA tile E157 Cape Nutt: Photographs taken on 5 January 2010 and geo-referenced to a Quickbird satellite image taken on 17 February 2011 Ivanoff Head: Photographs taken on 27 December 2009 and geo-referenced to LIMA tile E157 Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.