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"Findley"
Argos Number: 19310, Sex: Male 139cm
Released "Tab" weir at ~18:00 EST 8/22/02
Weir location: 44.733N, 66.733W
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Sighting Data.
Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) tagged and released by researchers with the Duke University Marine Lab.
Tag is a Telonic ST-10 style location only transmiiter with a 6 on 42 off duty
cycle (ie data every second day).
Satellite Fixes
Data Format key:
Date (dd.mm.yy): 22.08.98 23:06:55 Time (hr:min:sec)(in GMT), LC (fix quality)
LC just stands for Location Class. Location Classes of 0 and up are the best (derived from 4 or more messages)- a Class 0 is good to within between 1,000 and 5,000 meters. Classes 1,2,3- get consistently more accurate. The letter classes are given no estimate of error, but the A's are better than the B's etc. (Argos Accuracy Table) It appears that some of the letter class locations are pretty good (i.e. several fixes over a short period are quite similar), but then others vary wildly- especially the longitude.
> Lat1: 48.275N [latitude] Lon1: 69.232W [longitude]
"Findley" Data
19310 Date : 23.08.02 02:11:07 LC : 1 IQ : 58
Lat1 : 44.660N Lon1 : 66.687W
19310 Date : 25.08.02 01:25:17 LC : 2 IQ : 68
Lat1 : 44.652N Lon1 : 66.666W
19310 Date : 27.08.02 02:17:03 LC : 1 IQ : 58
Lat1 : 44.744N Lon1 : 66.773W
19310 Date : 29.08.02 01:48:02 LC : 0 IQ : 48
Lat1 : 44.692N Lon1 : 66.668W
19310 Date : 01.09.02 23:50:00 LC : 0 IQ : 58
Lat1 : 44.765N Lon1 : 66.702W
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