What colour is penguin guano? ...

• Main Authors: Rees, WG, Brown, JA, Fretwell, PT, Trathan, PN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2017
• Subjects: hyperspectral; penguins; Pygoscelis; remote sensing; Antarctic; Guano; Signy Island; South Orkney Islands; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.12438; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266047

The identification and quantification of Antarctic Pygoscelis penguin colonies depends increasingly on recognition of the characteristic optical properties of guano deposits, but almost all knowledge of these properties until now has been compromised by resolution and atmospheric propagation effects...