PhotoEstimate: Produce replicate-specific photo count estimates.

View source: R/PhotoEstimate.R

PhotoEstimateR Documentation

Produce replicate-specific photo count estimates.

Description

Produce replicate-specific photo count estimates for transect-based photo count surveys.

Usage

PhotoEstimate(data, total.area, M)

Arguments

data

An R data frame of photo counts and areas. Needs a minimum structure with columns rep, transect, count, and area.

total.area

The size of the study area to extrapolate density over.

M

The maximum possible transects through the study area (used in variance calculation)

Details

This function takes a data set of photos and associated automated or manual counts and produces an estimate across transects at the replicate level.

Value

A list of 2 objects: rep_summary for information regarding the variance, and est for the estimate by replicate.

Author(s)

Charles Frost, charles_frost@fws.gov


USFWS/AKaerial documentation built on April 3, 2025, 4:06 p.m.