Satellites, the all-seeing eyes in the sky: Counting elephant seals from space

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  McMahon, Clive R ^a   Howe, Hamish ^a   Van Den Hoff, John ^b   Alderman, Rachael ^c   Brolsma, Henk ^b   Hindell, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIROUNGA LEONINA; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAL; SPACE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEALS, EARLESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898663676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092613     Document Type: Article

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