We investigated the possibility of monitoring penguin colonies across the Antarctic using remote sensing by satellites. We selected six test sites with a number of penguin colonies, focussing on the species Pygoscelis adeliae (Adélie penguin) and Pygoscelis papua (gentoo penguin).
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Pilot study on monitoring climate-induced changes in penguin colonies in the Antarctic using satellite images
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Texte | 19/2012
Number of pages
126
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Osama Mustafa, Christian Pfeifer, Hans-Ulrich Peter, Matthias Kopp, Robert Metzig
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English
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3711 85 199
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