Tracking animal location and activity with an automated radio telemetry system in a tropical rainforest

Computer Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1931-1948

  Kays, Roland ^a,b   Tilak, Sameer ^c   Crofoot, Margaret ^b,d   Fountain, Tony ^c   Obando, Daniel ^b   Ortega, Alejandro ^b   Kuemmeth, Franz ^e   Mandel, Jamie ^f   Swenson, George ^g   Lambert, Thomas ^h   Hirsch, Ben ^a,b   Wikelski, Martin ^b,d  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^e E Obs ^*  (Germany)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

animal tracking; environmental observing systems; sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRACKING; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS; FOREST FLOORS; GEOGRAPHIC RANGES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND-USE CHANGE; MAMMAL SPECIES; PLANT SEEDS; RADIO-TELEMETRY; REAL TIME; REDUCED COST; SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TRACKING ANIMAL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WEATHER EVENTS; WILD ANIMALS; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS; ZOONOTIC DISEASE;

ARTS COMPUTING; AUTOMATION; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT;

ANIMALS;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING; FORESTS; LAND USE; PANAMA; PLANTS; RADIO; SENSORS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 82955194915     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxr072     Document Type: Article

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