Using cellular device location data to estimate visitation to public lands: Comparing device location data to U.S. National Park Service’s visitor use statistics

Wei-Lun Tsai; Nathaniel H. Merrill; Anne C. Neale; Madeline Grupper

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0289922

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Using cellular device location data to estimate visitation to public lands: Comparing device location data to U.S. National Park Service’s visitor use statistics

Wei-Lun Tsai ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tsai.wei-lun@epa.gov

Affiliation United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Public Health and Environmental Systems Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9183-9025

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Nathaniel H. Merrill,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Anne C. Neale,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Public Health and Environmental Systems Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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Madeline Grupper

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Research Fellow, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, Public Health and Environmental Systems Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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Using cellular device location data to estimate visitation to public lands: Comparing device location data to U.S. National Park Service’s visitor use statistics

Wei-Lun Tsai,
Nathaniel H. Merrill,
Anne C. Neale,
Madeline Grupper

Published: November 9, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289922

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