Best practice for collar deployment of tri-axial accelerometers on a terrestrial quadruped to provide accurate measurement of body acceleration

Abstract Background Tri-axial accelerometers are frequently deployed on terrestrial quadrupedal mammals using collars, because they are easy to fit and are thought to have minimal impact on the subject. Collar-attached devices are not fixed to the body and can move independently of the body. This ma...

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Main Authors: Eleanor R. Dickinson, Philip A. Stephens, Nikki J. Marks, Rory P. Wilson, David M. Scantlebury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:Animal Biotelemetry
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40317-020-00198-9