Iguanas from above: Citizen scientists provide reliable counts of endangered Galapagos marine iguanas from drone imagery
Andrea Varela-Jaramillo, Christian Winkelmann, Andres C. Marmol-Guijarro, Juan M. Guayasamin, Gonzalo Francisco Rivas‐Torres, Sebastian Steinfartz, Amy MacLeod
This study evaluates citizen scientists' ability to count Galapagos marine iguanas from drone images, finding high accuracy with proper aggregation methods and image quality filtering.
Scientific Reports · Jul 24, 2025Peer-reviewedZoology