National

Institute of Marine Research (HI) – project owner, research and management of ice breeding and coastal seals, abundance estimation and population modelling.

Norwegian Computing Center (NR) – automatic detection of seals from aerial images

Norut – operation of and research related to UAV

Akvaplan-niva - technology development

International

Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Canada

Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Russia

Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), UK

The international partners are all institutes that perform research and management of seals.