Double-observer line transect methods:levels of independence

• Published in: Biometrics
• Main Authors: Buckland, Stephen Terrence, Laake, Jeffrey L., Borchers, David Louis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Distance sampling; Double-observer methods; Full independence; Limiting independence; Line transect sampling; Point independence; Petersen; minke whale
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/doubleobserver-line-transect-methods(f929d6e1-1769-4ac0-a560-532a9648a864).html; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01239.x; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/1928/1/ms_080447MR_levels_of_independence.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949660683&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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...