Distance estimation experiment for aerial minke whale surveys
A comparative study between aerial cue–counting and digital photography surveys for minke whales conducted in Faxaflói Bay in September 2003 is used to check the perpendicular distances estimated by the cue-counting observers. The study involved 2 aircraft with the photo plane at 1,700 feet flying ab...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/2709 2023-05-15T15:36:38+02:00 Distance estimation experiment for aerial minke whale surveys Witting, Lars Pike, Daniel G 2009-09-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/NAMMCOSP/article/view/2709 https://doi.org/10.7557/3.2709 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/NAMMCOSP/article/view/2709/2559 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/NAMMCOSP/article/view/2709 doi:10.7557/3.2709 Copyright (c) 2009 Lars Witting, Daniel G Pike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY NAMMCO Scientific Publications; Vol 7: North Atlantic Sightings Surveys: Counting whales in the North Atlantic, 1987-2001; 111-116 2309-2491 1560-2206 10.7557/3.7 minke whales Balaenoptera physalus surveys distance estimation info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2009 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/3.2709 https://doi.org/10.7557/3.7 2021-08-16T16:39:00Z A comparative study between aerial cue–counting and digital photography surveys for minke whales conducted in Faxaflói Bay in September 2003 is used to check the perpendicular distances estimated by the cue-counting observers. The study involved 2 aircraft with the photo plane at 1,700 feet flying above the cue–counting plane at 750 feet. The observer–based distance estimates were calculated from head angles estimated by angle-boards and declination angles estimated by declinometers. These distances were checked against image–based estimates of the perpendicular distance to the same whale. The 2 independent distance estimates were obtained for 21 sightings of minke whale, and there was a good agreement between the 2 types of estimates. The relative absolute deviations between the 2 estimates were on average 23% (se: 6%), with the errors in the observer–based distance estimates resembling that of a log-normal distribution. The linear regression of the observer–based estimates (obs) on the image–based estimates (img) was Obs=1.1Img (R2=0.85) with an intercept fixed at zero. There was no evidence of a distance estimation bias that could generate a positive bias in the absolute abundance estimated by cue–counting. Article in Journal/Newspaper Balaenoptera physalus minke whale University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing NAMMCO Scientific Publications 7 111 |
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A comparative study between aerial cue–counting and digital photography surveys for minke whales conducted in Faxaflói Bay in September 2003 is used to check the perpendicular distances estimated by the cue-counting observers. The study involved 2 aircraft with the photo plane at 1,700 feet flying above the cue–counting plane at 750 feet. The observer–based distance estimates were calculated from head angles estimated by angle-boards and declination angles estimated by declinometers. These distances were checked against image–based estimates of the perpendicular distance to the same whale. The 2 independent distance estimates were obtained for 21 sightings of minke whale, and there was a good agreement between the 2 types of estimates. The relative absolute deviations between the 2 estimates were on average 23% (se: 6%), with the errors in the observer–based distance estimates resembling that of a log-normal distribution. The linear regression of the observer–based estimates (obs) on the image–based estimates (img) was Obs=1.1Img (R2=0.85) with an intercept fixed at zero. There was no evidence of a distance estimation bias that could generate a positive bias in the absolute abundance estimated by cue–counting. |
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Distance estimation experiment for aerial minke whale surveys |
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