Designing an archival satellite transmitter for life-long deployments on oceanic vertebrates: The life history transmitter

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 807-817

  Horning, Markus ^a   Hill, Roger D ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wildlife Computers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Error detection; Fault tolerance; LHX tag; Long term tracking; Marine mammals; Survival rates; Tag reliability

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

MARINE MAMMALS; SURVIVAL RATES; TAG RELIABILITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 33144469651     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2005.862135     Document Type: Article

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