Increasing Accuracy: A New Design and Algorithm for Automatically Measuring Weights, Travel Direction and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) of Penguins

Vsevolod Afanasyev; Sergey V. Buldyrev; Michael J. Dunn; Jeremy Robst; Mark Preston; Steve F. Bremner; Dirk R. Briggs; Ruth Brown; Stacey Adlard; Helen J. Peat

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126292

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Increasing Accuracy: A New Design and Algorithm for Automatically Measuring Weights, Travel Direction and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) of Penguins

Vsevolod Afanasyev ,

* E-mail: hjpe@bas.ac.uk

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Sergey V. Buldyrev,

Affiliation Department of Physics, Yeshiva University, 500 W 185th Street, New York, NY, 10033, United States of America
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Michael J. Dunn,

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Jeremy Robst,

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Mark Preston,

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Steve F. Bremner,

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Dirk R. Briggs,

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Ruth Brown,

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Stacey Adlard,

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Helen J. Peat

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ET, United Kingdom
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Increasing Accuracy: A New Design and Algorithm for Automatically Measuring Weights, Travel Direction and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) of Penguins

Vsevolod Afanasyev,
Sergey V. Buldyrev,
Michael J. Dunn,
Jeremy Robst,
Mark Preston,
Steve F. Bremner,
Dirk R. Briggs,
Ruth Brown,
Stacey Adlard,
Helen J. Peat

Published: April 20, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126292

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