Scientists Yang Liu (l) and Vikrant Shah from Northeastern University aligning images from their drone survey into photomosaics to create a single high resolution picture of the entire site.
The scientists use machine learning
to identify the number of penguin nests.
The results will be compared with the hand counting done by the scientists on location.
To understand how penguin populations are faring, a census has been organised by researchers from Stony Brook University, Northeastern University and Greenpeace to study the impact of climate change on fragile chinstrap penguin colonies in Antarctica.
Greenpeace is back in the Antarctic on the last stage of the ‘Protect The Oceans’ Expedition. We have teamed up with a group of scientists to investigate and document the impacts the climate crisis is already having in this area.

(This picture was taken in 2020 during the Antarctic leg of the Pole to Pole expedition under the Dutch permit number RWS-2019/40813)