Merging Adaptive and Point Transect Sampling
The point count transect method for estimates of biodiversity on coral reefs: improving the sampling of rare species
... * [email protected] Abstract Understanding patterns in species richness and diversity over environmental gradients (such as altitude and depth) is an enduring component of ecology. As most biological com- ...
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The uniformly most powerful invariant test for two models of detection function in point transect sampling
... sampling (Zhang, 2003; Eidous, 2005). Although this problem has been previ- ously addressed by Mack (1998) and Zhang (2001) in line transect sampling, no attempt has been made in the context of ...
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Evaluating the effect of measurement error in pairs of 3D bearings in point transect sampling estimates of density
... Given that we observe the 3D bearing angles, as well as the distance between Q1 and Q2, and both of these should be related to measurement error, we can use that information as part of the measurement error model. 10 ...
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POINT TRANSECT SURVEYS FOR SONGBIRDS: ROBUST METHODOLOGIES
... line transect sampling required least time in the field, followed by the snapshot ...each point took the ...line transect sampling was estimated to be the most efficient method for all ...
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SAMPLING DESIGNS - RANDOM SAMPLING, ADAPTIVE AND SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING
... important point to remember is that all of these methods of sampling may give the correct results under the right ...of sampling because they can not be evaluated by the theorems of probability ...
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Adaptive distance sampling
... which transect legs are surveyed in a line transect survey must be ...to point transects. Consider an adaptive line transect survey using a Paiallel neighbourhood in a SIS design, with ...
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Line-transect distance sampling compared with fixed-width strip-transect counts for assessing tomtit (Petroica macrocephala) population trends
... Farnsworth GL, Nichols JD, Sauer JL, Fancy SG, Pollock KH, Shriner SA, Simons TR 2005. Statistical approaches to the analysis of point count data: a little extra information can go a long way. In: Ralph CJ, Rich ...
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Adaptive Global Visibility Sampling
... view point, whereas a PVS is computed for all view points in a view cell, thus overestimating each individ- ual view ...visibility sampling could improve this ...
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Safe Adaptive Importance Sampling
... uniform sampling [27, 29, 7, 8, 28] but also non-uniform sampling based on a fixed distribution, commonly referred to as importance sampling [18, 19, 2, 33, 16, 6, 25, ...these sampling ...
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A zigzag survey design for continuous transect sampling with guaranteed equal coverage probability
... each transect leg as a primary sampling unit, and bootstrap among the ...turning point between two successive legs, thus causing neighbor leg observations to be ...
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Fuzzy clustering with volume prototypes and adaptive cluster merging
... and Adaptive Cluster Merging Uzay Kaymak and Magne Setnes Abstract—Two extensions to the objective function-based fuzzy clustering are ...cluster merging step is introduced where the similarity among ...
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Adaptive realities : effects of merging physical and virtual entities
... platform. The value of these bodies only exists while there is a value in their environment. These bodies are easily disposable. The body has great importance to the way one experiences and perceives the world. ...
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Adaptive Basis Sampling for Smoothing Splines
... time point t by Y ijt , the number of GC counts in the neighborhood of 1 to 76 nucleotides away from the jth nucleotide by x h1iji , that in the neighborhood of 77 to 152 nucleotides away from the jth nucleotide ...
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Adaptive sampling of cumulus clouds with UAVs
... scenario), the 1 km altitude is reached later and the mean altitude then starts to slowly decrease until the end of the simulation: the UAVs have difficulties main- taining their altitude because of the associated energy ...
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Incorporating animal movement into circular plot and point transect surveys of wildlife abundance
... A complete census, counting every individual within the study region, is only feasible in very special cases, e.g., the population is small and individuals can be readily identified. The southern resident killer whale ...
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Adaptive Sampling and the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network: Bringing Data Together With Skill
... \\Polarbear, named after the asset collecting the data. For example, the WHOI Gliders would send back data as ASCII (text) files with the extension “.prf”; these files would be stored in the ...
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Decentralised Adaptive Sampling of Wireless Sensor Networks
... its sampling rate to the maximum rate in order to incorporate this phase ...its sampling rate for energy efficiency due to the presence of information that has a low ...particular point of time or to ...
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Assessing the effects of measurement errors in line transect sampling
... A simulation study was carried out in which known amount of measurement error can be added to error-free line transect data (i.e. true perpendicular distances) to determine the effects o[r] ...
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Kernel Estimation in Line Transect Sampling for Parametric Model
... Line transect sampling is a common method used in ecology for sampling the sample required. It is an important procedure for estimating the population density of objects in interested study area. ...
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Size bias in line transect sampling: A field test
... In Figure 1 the estimated probability of sighting is plotted against perpendicular distance for transect 1 for each group size separatelY'.. 2.2 The Bxponential Power Sighting Function.[r] ...
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