Discovering new penguin colonies from space

Paris (ESA) Aug 07, 2020

Satellite images have revealed that there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought. Scientists, at the British Antarctic Survey, have used satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to track penguin guano, or penguin poo, to monitor the presence of thousands of penguins. The findings, published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservati