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AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Knox_2011

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Citation
Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adelie penguin occupancy survey of islands along the Knox Coast, 2011, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/58fd6124c2ccc, Accessed: 2026-06-04
Title
Adélie penguin occupancy survey of islands along the Knox Coast, 2011
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/58fd6124c2ccc
Created Date
2017-04-24
Revision Date
2025-10-01
Expected Date of Data Release
2022-10-11
Data Version
1
Parent record
AAS_4088_Adelie_breeding_colony_boundaries

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    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 Adélie 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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    Quality

    It was not possible to geo-reference oblique photos to satellite images perfectly. The colony boundaries are less accurate than those derived from vertical aerial photography (e.g. Vestfolds and Rauers) or ground survey (e.g. Robinsons).

    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -66.45
    Southernmost:
    -66.55

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    107.08
    Easternmost:
    109.33

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • COLONIES
    • 4088

    Locations

    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

    Platforms

    • AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
    • SATELLITES
    • LANDSAT
    • DigitalGlobe's QuickBird
    • AIRCRAFT

    Instruments

    • CAMERAS

    Researchers

    • southwell, colin (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
    • emmerson, louise (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)

    Use Constraints

    This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

    Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Knox_2011 when using these data.

    Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • CEOS
      • AMD
      • AMD/AU

      Publications

      • Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2013) Large scale occupancy surveys in East Antarctica discover new Adelie penguin breeding sites and reveal an expanding breeding distribution., Antarctic Science, 25, 531-535, doi:10.1017/S0954102012001174
      • Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2013) First population counts at newly discovered Adélie Penguin Pygoscelis adeliae breeding sites along the Wilhelm II, Queen Mary and Wilkes Land coastlines, east Antarctica., Marine Ornithology, 41, 87-89, http://doi.org/10.5038/2074-1235.41.2.1022

      Metadata Revision History

        2017-04-24 - record created by Colin Southwell. 2022-10-11 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2025-10-01 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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