Wildlife tracking data management: A new vision

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1550, 2010, Pages 2177-2185

  Urbano, Ferdinando ^a,b   Cagnacci, Francesca ^b   Calenge, Clément ^c   Dettki, Holger ^d   Cameron, Alison ^e   Neteler, Markus ^b  

^a Edmund Mach Foundation ^*  (Italy)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^c OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotelemetry; Data modelling; GIS; GPS tracking; Spatial database; Wildlife ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; GIS; GPS; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; TRACKING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955180867     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0081     Document Type: Article

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