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Annotated dataset of beluga whales detected in Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery of the southern Kara Sea (Russia) in July 2016.
This annotated dataset comprises locational data of beluga whales along the eastern shore of the Yugor Penisula and in the inner part of Baydaratskaya Bay in the southern Kara Sea (Russia) as detected from Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery on July 4th and 9th, 2016. Images were manually scanned and whales detected through the use of grids. Additional metadata includes information on image type and model, and whale distinctive characteristics (e.g., fluke or blow). This work supports the 'training' of machine learning algorithms for automatic detection of whales from satellite imagery.
This study was possible thanks to imagery support from MAXAR Technologies/Digital Globe Foundation for the VHR images and core funding from British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, as part of the 'Wildlife from Space' project.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2024-03-26
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-03-26
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-03-26
- Date (released)
- 2024-03-26
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1.0
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/ae34b490-4838-4740-a78e-924d23dc5540
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doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01829
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Please cite this item as: Panigada, V., Cubaynes, H.C., & Fretwell, P.T. (2024). Annotated dataset of beluga whales detected in Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery of the southern Kara Sea (Russia) in July 2016. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/ae34b490-4838-4740-a78e-924d23dc5540
- Credit
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No credit.
- Status
- Completed
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Antarctic Survey Panigada, Viola Author British Antarctic Survey Cubaynes, Hannah C Author British Antarctic Survey Fretwell, Peter T Author NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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- Completed
- Theme
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Beluga
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Delphinapterus leucas
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Foraging ground
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Remote Sensing
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Satellite Imagery
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Very High Resolution
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- Place
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Northern Yugor Peninsula Russia
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Baydaratskaya Bay Russia
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Other restrictions
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- no limitations to public access
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- no limitations
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- Open Government Licence v3.0
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This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/
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- Other restrictions
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This data is governed by the NERC data policy and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3
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- Other restrictions
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There are no access constraints on this dataset.
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url
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- Cross reference
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url
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- Larger work citation
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 2016-07-04
- End date
- 2016-07-04
- Supplemental Information
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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.
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role European Petroleum Survey Group
Publisher
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
- Version
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6.18.3
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Distributor
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Name Version application/vnd.shp text/csv
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http://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=ae34b490-4838-4740-a78e-924d23dc5540 Get Data
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bytes
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- 1153434
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
http://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=ae34b490-4838-4740-a78e-924d23dc5540 Get Data
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- Dataset
- Statement
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Methodology:
Beluga whales were manually detected by scanning VHR satellite imagery obtained from the Maxar satellites WorldView-2 and -3. Single points were placed on the whales, and the attribute table was filled out to contain information on the certainty level (i.e. "definite", "probable", "possible") derived from the classification score assessed based on various criteria (i.e. body length, body width, body shape, body colour, fluke print, blow, contour, wake, after-breach, defecation, other disturbance, fluke, flipper, head callosities and mud trail), following Cubaynes et al. 2023. For additional details on attribute table definitions, please refer to the README affiliated with the shapefile data. For each annotated whale, there is information about the imagery analysed: the location, latitude and longitude (in decimal degrees and recorded using the same geographic coordinate system and projection as the satellite imagery), imagery ID, imagery date, type of satellite, spatial resolution, number of multispectral bands, product level and type (e.g., Standard2A). The 4th of July dataset is in the projection WGS 1984 UTM 41N and 9th of July dataset in WGS 1984 UTM 42N.
Data quality:
The satellite images were pansharpened using the ESRI pansharpening algorithm.
The attribute table includes fields to: specify the satellite image metadata; describe environmental conditions; describe the observed animal. Please refer to the README associated with the data for details.
Metadata
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- ae34b490-4838-4740-a78e-924d23dc5540 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-03-26
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003(E)
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre Point of contact
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