Double-Observer Line Transect Methods: Levels of Independence

• Main Authors: Stephen T. Buckl, Jeffrey L. Laake, David L. Borchers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: KEY WORDS; Distance sampling; Double-observer methods; Full independence; Limiting independence; Line transect sampling; Point independence; Petersen; minke whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.385.5432; http://www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/stb/ms 080447MR levels of independence.pdf

Double-observer line transect methods are becoming increasingly widespread, especially for the estimation of marine mammal abundance from aerial and shipboard surveys when detection of animals on the line is uncertain. The resulting data supplement conventional distance sampling data with two-sample...