Whales from Space Database: Image chips

Monitoring whales in remote regions is important for their conservation, using traditional survey platforms (boat and plane) is logistically difficult. The use of very high-resolution satellite imagery to survey whales, particularly in remote regions, is gaining interest and momentum. However, development is hindered by the lack of automated systems to detect whales. Such a system requires an open source library containing examples of whales and confounding features in satellite imagery. Here we present such a database, created by surveying 6,300 km2 of satellite imagery in various regions across the globe, which allowed us to detect 633 whale objects.

This dataset contains image chips as png files.



Funding was provided from a BAS Innovation Voucher.

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Alternate title

Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01592
Date (Publication)
2023-11-15
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01592
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

Cubaynes, H., & Fretwell, P.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Marine Mammals

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Environment Monitoring

BAS Free-text keywords

  • Cetacean

  • computer vision

  • machine learning

  • remote sensing

  • training data

  • very high-resolution satellite imagery

  • whale
Use limitation

Data released under the Maxar Technologies group license ( https://www.maxar.com/legal/group-license).

All images are protected by the Maxar Technologies copyright.

Imagery courtesy of Maxar Technologies.
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Data released under the Maxar Technologies group license ( https://www.maxar.com/legal/group-license).

All images are protected by the Maxar Technologies copyright.

Imagery courtesy of Maxar Technologies.
Language
English
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2006-08-12
End date
2017-02-20
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Distributor
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name

    http

    GET DATA
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset

    Domain consistency

    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
    Date
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification
    Pass
    No
    Statement

    Used Cubaynes et al 2019 to assign a confidence level to the whale-objects detected and listed in the database.

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01592 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2023-11-15
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Point of contact
    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01592

     
     

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