A Semi-Automated Method for Estimating Adélie Penguin Colony Abundance from a Fusion of Multispectral and Thermal Imagery Collected with Unoccupied Aircraft Systems

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Clara N. Bird, Allison H. Dawn, Julian Dale, David W. Johnston
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: penguins; guano; unoccupied aircraft systems; thermal imagery; multispectral imagery; image segmentation; Science; Q; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Guano; Torgersen; Torgersen Island; Avian Island; Antarc*; Pygoscelis adeliae
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12223692; https://doaj.org/article/7f6ecdc6f9ff4ecb87a2816579feeaa5

Monitoring Adélie penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae) populations on the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) provides information about the health of the species and the WAP marine ecosystem itself. In January 2017, surveys of Adélie penguin colonies at Avian Island and Torgersen Island off the WAP were con...