Accuracy of geolocation estimates for flying seabirds

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 266, Issue , 2004, Pages 265-272

  Phillips, R A ^a   Silk, J R D ^a   Croxall, J P ^a   Afanasyev, V ^a   Briggs, D R ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albatrosses; Error estimation; Geolocation; Kernel analysis; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOTELEMETRY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; SEABIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; THALASSARCHE MELANOPHRYS;

EID: 1342332608     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps266265     Document Type: Article

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