An at-sea assessment of Argos location accuracy for three species of large whales, and the effect of deep-diving behavior on location error

An at-sea assessment of Argos location accuracy for three species of large whales, and the effect of deep-diving behavior on location error

Abstract Background Argos satellite telemetry is used globally to track terrestrial and aquatic megafauna, yet the accuracy of this system has been described empirically only for a limited number of species. We used Argos-linked archival tags with Fastloc GPS deployed on free-ranging sperm (Physeter...

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Main Authors: Ladd M. Irvine, Martha H. Winsor, Tomas M. Follett, Bruce R. Mate, Daniel M. Palacios
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Animal Biotelemetry
Subjects:
Argos error
Satellite telemetry
Satellite tracking
Cetaceans
Blue whale
Fin whale
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40317-020-00207-x

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