Locations of features of interest from a multi-season (2018-2022) baleen whale-focused survey of Wilhelmina Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula, using WorldView-03 satellite imagery

The application of Very-High-Resolution satellite imagery for the purpose of studying wildlife, particularly in remote regions, has gained significant traction in recent years. With this there has been an exponential increase in the volume of data, which has fostered a shift towards the use of automated systems to increase processing efficiency. However, these systems require manually annotated data on which to be trained, which is lacking. This dataset describes a total of 819 annotated and classified whale Features of Interest (FOIs) from a multi-season survey of Wilhelmina Bay on the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). These data are comprised of FOIs that have been annotated and classified based on existing protocols by seven individual observers who scanned ~1,900 km2 of WorldView-03 imagery acquired between 2018/2019 and 2021/2022.

This work was supported by an Innovation Voucher from the British Antarctic Survey and grants from the World Wildlife Fund (GB107301) and NC-International NERC (NE/T012439/1).

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02045

Date (Publication): 2025-04-11

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02045

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	Bamford, C., Kelly, N., Cubaynes, H., Clarke, P., Longden, E., Weyn, M., Perry, G., Snead, H., Fouda, L., Macfarlane, G., & Jackson, J.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology
EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Visible Wavelengths > Visible Imagery

BAS Free-text keywords

Very-High-Resolution satellite imagery
Western Antarctic Peninsula
baleen whales
training data

Use limitation: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language: English

Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 2021-11-15

End date: 2022-03-16

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	http://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=ab19aaba-12d6-44a7-89a3-7b45af0343ed	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: NA''s present in the attached ''identified_features.csv'' file - these occur when a particular record was not completed by an observer during the classification process (i.e., cloud cover was omitted from the record). Whilst these correspond to missing information on the classification process the locational information is intact.