Aerial videogrammetry from a tethered airship to assess manatee life-stage structure

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 617-630

  Flamm, Richard O ^a   Owen, Edward C G ^b   Owen, Caryn F W ^b   Wells, Randall S ^b   Nowacek, Doug ^c  

^a FLORIDA MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial videogrammetry; Life stage structure; Manatee; Trichechus manatus latirostris

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AGE STRUCTURE; SIRENIAN; VIDEOGRAPHY;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SIRENIA; TRICHECHIDAE; TRICHECHUS; TRICHECHUS MANATUS; TRICHECHUS MANATUS LATIROSTRIS;

EID: 0033921623     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2000.tb00955.x     Document Type: Article

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