Analysing infrequently sampled animal tracking data by incorporating generalized movement trajectories with kernel density estimation

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 302-310

  Downs, Joni A ^a   Horner, Mark W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaunay triangulation; Home range; Kernel density estimation; Time geography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRACKING; BROWNIAN BRIDGE; CONTINUOUS SPACES; CORE AREA; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; DENSITY ESTIMATION; FLORIDA; HOME RANGE; HOME RANGE ANALYSIS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATE; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; KERNEL METHODS; MOVEMENT PATTERN; MOVEMENT TRAJECTORIES; MOVING OBJECTS; POINT PATTERNS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SPATIAL POINT PATTERN; TIME GEOGRAPHY; TRACKING DATA;

RATING; STATISTICS; TRAJECTORIES; TRIANGULATION;

ANIMALS;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACKING; TRIANGULATION;

ANIMALIA; PUMA CONCOLOR CORYI;

EID: 84861222715     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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