Increasing accuracy: A new design and algorithm for automatically measuring weights, travel direction and radio frequency identification (RFID) of penguins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^a   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^b   Dunn, Michael J ^a   Robst, Jeremy ^a   Preston, Mark ^a   Bremner, Steve F ^a   Briggs, Dirk R ^a   Brown, Ruth ^a   Adlard, Stacey ^a   Peat, Helen J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COLONY FORMATION; DYNAMOMETER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUDYPTES CHRYSOCOME; EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; EUDYPTULA MINOR; FORAGING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOISTURE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PROCESS DESIGN; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRAVEL; WEIGHBRIDGE WEIGHTS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AVES; EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE; SPHENISCIDAE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84929501396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126292     Document Type: Article

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