Testing the VEMCO Positioning System: Spatial distribution of the probability of location and the positioning error in a reservoir

Animal Biotelemetry

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Roy, Romain ^a   Beguin, Jeremy ^a   Argillier, Christine ^a   Tissot, Laurence ^a   Smith, Frank ^b   Smedbol, Stephanie ^b   De Oliveira, Eric ^a  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b VEMCO Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic telemetry; Positioning error; Probability of location; Spatial distribution; VEMCO Positioning System

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018193332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20503385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2050-3385-2-1     Document Type: Short Survey

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