Acoustic spatial capture-recapture study on vocalising bowhead whales

Acoustic spatial capture-recapture study on vocalising bowhead whales

Contains the code and data used for the analysis of the case study data and run the simulation study. The results of this study have been peer-reviewed and published (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-023-00563-0) and also appear in Chapter 2 and 3 of the PhD thesis "Advancements in methods for estimating the abundance of marine megafauna using novel sampling techniques" by Felix T Petersma. We provide some information in support of the files presented here; however, for extensive background we kindly refer you to the publication.

Most of the functionality of the model fitting is contained in the 'ascrRcpp'-package. This package has been included pre-built and can be installed using the file 'ascrRcpp_1.0.tar.gz'.Once this package is installed, all scripts included in this location should run fine, given that all other packages that are used will be installed as well.