Mapping stream habitats with a global positioning system: Accuracy, precision, and comparison with traditional methods

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 271-280

  Dauwalter, Daniel C ^a   Fisher, William L ^a   Belt, Kevin C ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; GPS; Positional error; Spatial data; Stream habitat

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STREAM FLOW; VEGETATION;

POSITIONAL ERROR; SPATIAL DATA; STREAM HABITAT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GPS; MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; PRECISION; STREAM;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOME; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIES HABITAT; STREAM (RIVER); VEGETATION;

ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; OKLAHOMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RIVERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 31544440202     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0270-z     Document Type: Article

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