Whales from Space: Counting Southern Right Whales by Satellite
Figure 2
A selection of 20 comparable false colour image chips (bands 1-8-5) of probable whales found by the automated analysis.
Several of the images could be interpreted as whale pairs, or as a mother and calf, others may be displaying behaviour such as tail slapping, rolling or blowing. On several images there is a strong return at one end of the feature which is mostly likely the calluses on the whales head. Reprinted under a CC BY license with permission from British Antarctic Survey and DigitalGlobe.