Objectively identifying landmark use and predicting flight trajectories of the homing pigeon using Gaussian processes

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 55, 2011, Pages 210-219

  Mann, Richard ^a,b   Freeman, Robin ^a,b   Osborne, Michael ^a   Garnett, Roman ^a   Armstrong, Chris ^a   Meade, Jessica ^c   Biro, Dora ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a   Roberts, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Avian navigation; Flight; Gaussian process; Landmarks; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NAVIGATION; TRAJECTORIES;

ANIMAL MOVEMENT; AVIAN NAVIGATION; FLIGHT; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; LANDMARKS; PIGEON;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; FLYING; KERNEL METHOD; LANDSCAPE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PIGEON;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 78650815585     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0301     Document Type: Article

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