Can ethograms be automatically generated using body acceleration data from free-ranging birds?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Sakamoto, Kentaro Q ^a   Sato, Katsufumi ^b   Ishizuka, Mayumi ^a   Watanuki, Yutaka ^c   Takahashi, Akinori ^d   Daunt, Francis ^e   Wanless, Sarah ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BODY ACCELERATION; DIVING; ETHOGRAM; FLYING; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHALACROCORAX ARISTOTELIS; SEABIRD; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SWIMMING; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUTOMATION; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHALACROCORAX ARISTOTELIS;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DIVING; MOVEMENT; SWIMMING;

EID: 65549094493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005379     Document Type: Article

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