Glossary

Glossary

This page can serve as a glossary for terms, meanings of terms and argument names. We should stay totally consistent with these terms.

Term	Description	User facing units	Internal units
count	The number of camera/acoustic counts or captures
alpha	Call width	radians	radians
theta	Sensor width	radians	radians
phi	Angle of detection	radians	radians
r	Sensor range.	meters	kilometers
d	Distance to target	meters	kilometers
v	Average animal speed	kilometres per day	kilometres per day
tm	Length of survey i.e. number of sensors x survey duration	hours	days
area	Survey area size	kilometres ^ 2	kilometres ^ 2
nboots	Number of bootstraps