Understanding the causes of missed global positioning system telemetry fixes

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 844-851

  Graves, Tabitha A ^a,b   Waller, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Glacier National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential correction; Fix success; Fix rate bias; Global positioning system; GPS; Grizzly bear; Montana; Telemetry; Temporal bias; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746369781     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[844:UTCOMG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Note

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