V-Track: Software for analysing and visualising animal movement from acoustic telemetry detections

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 815-820

  Campbell, Hamish A ^a   Watts, Matthew E ^a   Dwyer, Ross G ^a   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; R tracking VEMCO; VR2W

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BIOTELEMETRY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; DETECTION METHOD; FRESHWATER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOVEMENT; SOFTWARE; TRACKING; VERTEBRATE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84867394209     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF12194     Document Type: Article

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