A test of the accuracy of line and strip transect estimators in aerial survey [feral pigs; population density]
1988
Hone, J. (Canberra College of Advanced Education, Belconnen (Australia). School of Applied Science)
The accuracy and precision of 8 line transect estimators and 1 strip transect estimator were examined by helicopter aerial survey. Carcasses of feral pigs were counted in an area of treeless floodplain and Eucalyptus woodland. The ratio and Cox's methods, Fourier series, exponential power series, half-normal, exponential polynomial, negative exponential, hermite polynomial and hazard rate estimators gave accurate estimates. Using the survey method described, most estimators were of similar accuracy and precision, but the Fourier series was the most accurate.
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