Error Properties of Argos Satellite Telemetry Locations Using Least Squares and Kalman Filtering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Boyd, Janice D ^a,b   Brightsmith, Donald J ^b  

^a The Parrot Fund   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERING; MONITORING; PERU; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; ETHOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROCEDURES; PSITTACINE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHOLOGY; PERU; PSITTACIFORMES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84877849474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063051     Document Type: Article

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