Data from: Evaluation of Argos telemetry accuracy in the High-Arctic and implications for the estimation of home-range size ...
Animal tracking through Argos satellite telemetry has enormous potential to test hypotheses in animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, or conservation biology. Yet the applicability of this technique cannot be fully assessed because no clear picture exists as to the conditions influencing the accurac...
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Dryad
2016
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bt72k https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.bt72k |
| Summary: | Animal tracking through Argos satellite telemetry has enormous potential to test hypotheses in animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, or conservation biology. Yet the applicability of this technique cannot be fully assessed because no clear picture exists as to the conditions influencing the accuracy of Argos locations. Latitude, type of environment, and transmitter movement are among the main candidate factors affecting accuracy. A posteriori data filtering can remove “bad” locations, but again testing is still needed to refine filters. First, we evaluate experimentally the accuracy of Argos locations in a polar terrestrial environment (Nunavut, Canada), with both static and mobile transmitters transported by humans and coupled to GPS transmitters. We report static errors among the lowest published. However, the 68th error percentiles of mobile transmitters were 1.7 to 3.8 times greater than those of static transmitters. Second, we test how different filtering methods influence the quality of Argos location ... : Raw data_Christin et al_PLoS OneThese datasets are the GPS and Argos locations of static and mobile tests conducted in the High-Arctic; experiments were replicated several times, and the files are organized in different folders according to the experiment type. All files are provided in csv format. More information is provided in the joined ReadMe file. ... |
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