Double-Observer Line Transect Methods: Levels of Independence

• Main Authors: Buckland, Stephen T., Laake, Jeffrey L., Borchers, David L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2010
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Petersen; minke whale
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdeptcommercepub/199; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usdeptcommercepub/article/1185/viewcontent/Laake_BIOMETRICS_2010_Double_observer.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...