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Sentinel2 satellite imagery and derived geographic locations of emperor penguin colonies in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea between October and December, 2022
This dataset comprises Sentinel2 satellite imagery and derived geographic locations of five emperor penguin colonies located in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea, between October to December 2022. Medium-resolution satellite data was monitored for the presence of emperor penguin colonies, and when colonies were found, imagery was digitised and downloaded from Copernicus playground. Satellite data indicate early sea ice break-up at three of the four colonies, and the disappearance of the fourth colony.
Digitisation and annotation of satellite imagery was carried out by the British Antarctic Survey, and supported by NERC core funding and WWF grant NEB 2181.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2023-07-05
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-07-05
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-07-05
- Date (released)
- 2023-07-05
- Edition
- 1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/a777e89c-ffcc-4ff4-981c-8f37e5ca84c2
- Codespace
- doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01756
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: Fretwell, P. (2023). Sentinel2 satellite imagery and derived geographic locations of emperor penguin colonies in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea between October and December, 2022 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/a777e89c-ffcc-4ff4-981c-8f37e5ca84c2
- Credit
- No credit.
- Status
- completed Completed
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Theme
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- Emperor penguin
- breeding success
- climate change
- fast ice
- sea ice
- Place
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- Bellinghausen Sea Antarctica
- Rothschild Island Antarctica
- Verdi Inlet Antarctica
- Smyley Island Antarctica
- Bryant Coast Antarctica
- Pfogner Point Antarctica
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- license License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0
Satellite data should be credited to Modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2022]/Sentinel Hub
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No restrictions apply.
- Unique resource identifier
- url
- Codespace
- url
- Association Type
- crossReference Cross reference
- Spatial representation type
- textTable Text, table
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 2022-10-01
- End date
- 2022-12-31
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Distributor
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
- Name
- application/vnd.shp
- Name
- image/jpeg
- Units of distribution
- bytes
- Transfer size
- 10217325
- OnLine resource
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- Units of distribution
- bytes
- Transfer size
- 10217325
- OnLine resource
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Statement
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Methodology:
Colony locations have been found by medium resolution satellite from over the last ten years. Selected sentinel2 satellite data was visualized and downloaded from Copernicus Sentinel playground as jpeg files. Selection was based on cloud cover and time of year (between October and late December 2022).
The shapefiles of colony locations were made by firstly locating colonies within the jpeg digitised imagery, and subsequently retrieving their geographic coordinates by using Antarctic coastline data from the Antarctic Digital Database and freely available satellite mosaics from ESRI WORLD IMAGERY.
No populations or size estimates were made from this imagery.
Data collection:
Copernicus Sentinel2 visualized using Sentinel Playground
ArcGIS desktop 10.6 (ESRI 2023)
Data quality:
Quality of the count data should be regarded as approximate as the methodology of counting numbers of birds from VHR imagery is unproven and although counters get agreement within 5-20 percentage any bias to as yet untested. See related paper.
The following jpeg's imagery is only partially loaded. This has not affected the quality of the dataset and associated locations of emperor penguin colonies.
- File identifier
- a777e89c-ffcc-4ff4-981c-8f37e5ca84c2 XML
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-07-05
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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