Advances in the tracking of marine species: Using GPS locations to evaluate satellite track data and a continuous-time movement model

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 393, Issue , 2009, Pages 97-109

  Kuhn, Carey E ^a   Johnson, Devin S ^a   Ream, Rolf R ^a   Gelatt, Thomas S ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

At sea behaviour; Correlated random walk; GPS tracking; Movement patterns

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; GPS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CALLORHINUS; CALLORHINUS URSINUS;

EID: 70450206346     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08229     Document Type: Article

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