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Wake Forest University - Waved Albatross Tracking (2000, 2001)

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

All birds studied via satellite tracking were nesting in the same part of the breeding colony at Punta Cevallos, on the eastern point of Isla Española (Galápagos archipelago).

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In 2000 and 2001, a tape attachment method was used to attach Platform Transmitter Terminals (PTTs; Microwave Telemetry Inc., Columbia MD USA) to the dorsal feathers of birds at the nest. The birds were tracked using the satellites of the Argos System (Service Argos, Largo MD USA).

In 2000, five PTTs used this duty cycle, while two others transmitted continuously, and in 2001 all six transmitters transmitted continuously.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
NASA Earthdata CMRC1214586736-SCIOPS14 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebratessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebrates/birdssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebrates/birds/albatrosssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:radio-transmitterssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0