Evaluating Thermal and Color Sensors for Automating Detection of Penguins and Pinnipeds in Images Collected with an Unoccupied Aerial System

• Published in: Drones
• Main Authors: Jefferson T. Hinke, Louise M. Giuseffi, Victoria R. Hermanson, Samuel M. Woodman, Douglas J. Krause
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: automated detection; Antarctica; drone; census; image analysis; Antarctic; Cape Shirreff; Livingston Island; Shirreff; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6090255

Estimating seabird and pinniped abundance is central to wildlife management and ecosystem monitoring in Antarctica. Unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) can collect images to support monitoring, but manual image analysis is often impractical. Automating target detection using deep learning techniques may...