Brief description
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
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Subjects
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS |
AIRCRAFT |
AMD |
AMD/AU |
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES |
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION |
BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS |
BIRDS |
BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY |
CAMERAS |
CEOS |
CLIMATE INDICATORS |
COLONIES |
CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA |
EARTH SCIENCE |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR |
OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN |
PENGUINS |
QUICKBIRD > DigitalGlobe's QuickBird |
SATELLITES |
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Identifiers
- Local : adelie-penguin-occupancy-survey-of-the-lewis-islands-2012
- URI : data.gov.au/data/dataset/66fa0392-e2cd-4268-b5a7-66e1981b9f03
