Determining the optimal revisit time for primate spatial data collection

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dc.contributor.authorDostie, Marcus Jack
dc.contributor.supervisorKienzle, Stefan W.
dc.contributor.supervisorBarrett, Louise
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-07T21:19:39Z
dc.date.available2014-10-07T21:19:39Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.description.abstractA major limiting factor in the study of animal movement is the ability to collect affordable high resolution spatial data. Tracking data often requires interpolation; this research will focus on determining the amount of estimation error that can be expected at different sampling frequencies. This will allow researchers to find a sampling frequency which best captures an animal’s movement, while also allowing for the application of margins of error to previously collected data. High resolution tracking data for individual adult vervet monkeys and chacma baboons from two sites in South Africa was used for this analysis. Their paths were resampled at increasing intervals from one minute up to sixty minutes. The increased temporal simplification of animal tracks caused by growing revisit times was anticipated to cause multiple changes to the overall path geometry which allowed for the quantification of the resulting changes in the resampled paths.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3520
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.proquest.subject0368en_US
dc.proquest.subject0384en_US
dc.proquest.subject0329en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Geographyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geographyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectanimal trackingen_US
dc.subjectchacma baboonsen_US
dc.subjecthigh resolution spatial dataen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectvervet monkeysen_US
dc.titleDetermining the optimal revisit time for primate spatial data collectionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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