Error in Telemetry Studies: Effects of Animal Movement on Triangulation
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 54 (3) , 506-510
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3809666
Abstract
We used Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the effects of animal movement on error of estimated animal locations derived from radio-telemetry triangulation of sequentially obtained bearings. Simulated movements of 0-534 m resulted in up to 10-fold increases in average location error but <10% decreases in location precision when observer to-animal distances were <1,000m. Location error and precision were minimally affected by cenorship of poor locations with Chi-square goodness-of-fit tests. Location error caused by animal movement can only be eliminated by taking simultaneous bearings.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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