Calculating sighting distances from angular readings during shipboard, aerial, and shore-based marine mammal surveys

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 590-598

  Lerczak, James A ^a   Hobbs, Roderick C ^a  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

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EID: 0031804565     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.1998.tb00745.x     Document Type: Article

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