blue.shark {kfsst}R Documentation

A track of a blue shark released near Hawai'i

Description

This blue shark was released from longline fishing gear in April 2001. The PSAT tag from Microwave Telemetry (PTT-100) was attached and reported back after around 100 days at liberty.

Usage

data(blue.shark)

Format

A data frame with 45 observations on the following 6 variables.

day
Integer giving the day of month
month
Integer giving the month number
year
Four digit integer giving the year
Long
Raw light-based longitude in degrees east
Lat
Raw light-based latitude in degrees north
sst
Sea surface temperature (SST) derived from the tag in degrees Celsius.

Examples

  data(blue.shark)
  sst.path<-get.sst.from.server(blue.shark)
  sst.file<-write.sst.field(sst.path)
  fit<-kfsst(blue.shark, sst.file, bx.active=FALSE, bsst.active=FALSE)
  fit
  plot(fit, ci=TRUE, pred=FALSE)

[Package kfsst version 0.2 Index]