Description
Original provider: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab Dataset credits: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab Abstract: These RGB mosaics and thermal indices of Atlantic grey seal colonies at Hay and Saddle Island, Nova Scotia, were collected by small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The mosaics and thermal indices were assessed by human analysts, who counted the seals in the mosaic and classified individuals as 'young of the year' or 'adult'. Concurrently, an automated detection and classification model was applied to the datasets and compared to human counts. Purpose: These datasets were used to assess Atlantic grey seal populations and to compare and test wildlife survey methods. Supplemental information: The downloadable shapefile includes TIFF images of RGB mosaics and thermal indices. The size of the zipped file is 1GB and may take a long time to download. Within the dowloaded file, the 'Analysis Materials' folders contain point shapefiles of the seals counted and classified by human analysts. In addition, the folders contain the landscape masks that were applied to the thermal indices before running the automated detection models.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,355 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Seymour, A., Dale, J., Hammill, M., Halpin, P and Johnston, D. 2017. Automated detection and enumeration of marine wildlife using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and thermal imagery. Scientific Reports. 7: 45127.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4ef9d605-b08f-4f29-8d37-0536ffd2938e. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Computer Vision,Unmanned Aerial Vehicals,UAV,Unmanned Aircraft Systems,UAS; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1462 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1462/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [45.814, -63.253], North East [46.025, -59.683] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Halichoerus grypus (Atlantic gray seal) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2015-01-30 / 2015-02-02 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Atlantic grey seal breeding colonies in Hay and Saddle Islands, Nova Scotia |
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| Funding | NA |
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Sampling Methods
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| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1462 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1462 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | These datasets were used to assess Atlantic grey seal populations and to compare and test wildlife survey methods. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1462 |