An advanced, low-cost, GPS-based animal tracking system

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 334-340

  Clark, Patrick E ^a,f   Johnson, Douglas E ^b   Kniep, Mark A ^c   Jermann, Phillip ^a   Huttash, Brad ^c   Wood, Andrew ^d   Johnson, Michael ^b   McGillivan, Craig ^e   Titus, Kevin ^e  

^a US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^e BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity budgets; Animal behavior; Global positioning system; Habitat use; Real time; Telemetry tracking

Indexed keywords

GPS; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NATURAL RESOURCE; RADIOTELEMETRY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE DATA; TAGGING; TRACKING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33749180801     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/05-162R.1     Document Type: Article

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