Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 4: GPS Set Up, Version 1.0: Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears, Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Network
Robison HL, Rattenbury KL, Boyd ES. 2018. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 4: GPS Set Up, Version 1.0: Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears, Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Network. National Park Service Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network
This SOP describes how to create and load the sample unit grids, waypoints for the SW corner of sampling units, and topographic maps onto the pilots’ GPS units, which are used for navigating and marking bear and den locations as backup data to the iPad Park Observer data collected by the observer. The GPS units commonly used by survey pilots at the time of this printing are Garmin 296 and 496 (Olathe, Kansas). Please cite this Standard Operating Procedure as: Robison, H.L., K.L. Rattenbury, and E. S. Boyd. 2017. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 4: GPS Setup, Version 1.0. Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears in Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Networks. National Park Service, Fairbanks, Alaska. Available online at https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2210687 The main Narrative for the Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears in Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Networks is available from the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Arctic Network website (http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/arcn/) and the Natural Resource Publications Management website (http://www.nature.nps.gov/publications/nrpm/
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Robison, Hillary; Rattenbury, Kumi; Boyd, Eric
- Date of Issue
- 2018-09-27
- Publisher
- National Park Service Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network
- Units
- ARCN , BELA , CAKR , GAAR , KOVA , NOAT
- Keywords
- abundance, alaska, brown bear, distribution, grizzly, monitoring, national park service, nps, standard operating procedure, survey, ursus arctos
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals