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- 05-03-2011
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A BBC photo essay on using GPS to track hedgehogs in New Zealand:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9469000/9469456.stm
This paper (not on hedgehog tracking) identifies the equipment maker
as Sirtrack:
http://www.nzes.org.nz/nzje/new_issues/NZJEcol35_1_114.pdf
The GPS tracker in Image 6 on the BBC site appears to be the Sirtrack
G1G 132A or 134A:
http://www.sirtrack.com/documents/suites/microGPS_G1G_&_G1H_Suitesheet.pdf
Otago University is working on smaller and lighter tags:
http://elec.otago.ac.nz/w/index.php/Animal_tags
Twelve years ago a German doctoral student and Swiss engineers
designed a pigeon tracker with a total system weight of 38 gm, as
reported in this article in the short-lived magazine "Galileo's
World":
http://interbug.com/pigeon/technology/homing_pigeon_with_gps.pdf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9469000/9469456.stm
This paper (not on hedgehog tracking) identifies the equipment maker
as Sirtrack:
http://www.nzes.org.nz/nzje/new_issues/NZJEcol35_1_114.pdf
The GPS tracker in Image 6 on the BBC site appears to be the Sirtrack
G1G 132A or 134A:
http://www.sirtrack.com/documents/suites/microGPS_G1G_&_G1H_Suitesheet.pdf
Otago University is working on smaller and lighter tags:
http://elec.otago.ac.nz/w/index.php/Animal_tags
Twelve years ago a German doctoral student and Swiss engineers
designed a pigeon tracker with a total system weight of 38 gm, as
reported in this article in the short-lived magazine "Galileo's
World":
http://interbug.com/pigeon/technology/homing_pigeon_with_gps.pdf
