When using this dataset, please cite the original article.
Andrews-Goff V, Double M. 2022. Deployment details for satellite tags deployed on Antarctic blue whales during the Antarctic blue whale voyage 2013, Ver. 2. Australian Antarctic Data Centre. doi:10.26179/jd0n-va59 |
Additionally, please cite the Movebank data package:
Andrews-Goff V, Bell EM, Miller BS, Wotherspoon SJ, Double MC (2022) Data from: Deployment details for satellite tags deployed on Antarctic blue whales during the Antarctic blue whale voyage 2013, Ver. 2. Movebank Data Repository. doi:10.5441/001/1.vr276ns3
Package Identifier | doi:10.5441/001/1.vr276ns3 | ||
Abstract | One aim of the Antarctic blue whale voyage was to attempt to deploy satellite tags on Antarctic blue whales in order to describe their movement and behaviour. This was the first time satellite tags had ever been deployed on Antarctic blue whales. Antarctic blue whale movement has been described using static location information such as that derived from the retrieval of a discovery-tagged whales, photo identification or acoustic data. These techniques however are unable to provide a continuous record of actual movements instead inferring movement from two (or more) known locations at two (or more) separate points in time. Actual movements of the whale between these points in time are not known. As such, detailed information such as large scale migratory movement between breeding and feeding grounds or even fine scale movement within a feeding ground remain poorly understood. |
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Keywords | animal movement, animal tracking, Argos, Antarctic blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, Balaenoptera musculus intermedia, blue whale, cetaceans, satellite telemetry, state-space model, |