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Aerial survey of Hound Bay, South Georgia, elephant seal colony during the 2024/2025 season, flight DLPUS_214_08
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01982

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Abstract:
Aerial survey of the Hound Bay elephant seal colony, Mirounga leonina, during the 2023/24 season conducted using a remotely piloted aerial system (RPAS).

The aerial survey was conducted as part of the Darwin Plus (DPLUS) 214 project: Southwest Atlantic Elephant Seal Population Assessment (SAESPA).

Dataset includes the original images and log files, post-processed imagery data, along with the resulting georeferenced DSM (digital surface model) and an orthorectified mosaic of the imagery.

This dataset is from flight number DPLUS_214_08 which was carried out on 2024-10-17.

This work was supported by the Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund under Grant Darwin Plus ref: DPLUS214: Southwest Atlantic Elephant Seal Population Assessment (SAESPA).

Keywords:
South Georgia, aerial survey, digital surface model, drone, elephant seal, orthorectified mosaic

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Fenney, N., Coleman, J., & Bamford, C. (2025). Aerial survey of Hound Bay, South Georgia, elephant seal colony during the 2023/24 season, flight DLPUS_214_08 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f5139bb9-79b2-44e1-963e-c2755ffd1d01

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