windAC: Area Correction Methods
Post-construction fatality monitoring studies at wind
facilities are based on data from searches for bird and bat carcasses
in plots beneath turbines. Bird and bat carcasses can fall outside of
the search plot. Bird and bat carcasses from wind turbines often fall
outside of the searched area. To compensate, area correction (AC)
estimations are calculated to estimate the percentage of fatalities
that fall within the searched area versus those that fall outside of
it. This package provides two likelihood based methods and one physics
based method (Hull and Muir (2010)
<doi:10.1080/14486563.2010.9725253>, Huso and Dalthorp (2014)
<doi:10.1002/jwmg.663>) to estimate the carcass fall distribution.
There are also functions for calculating the proportion of area
searched within one unit annuli, log logistic distribution functions,
and truncated distribution functions.
| Version: |
1.3.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.6.0) |
| Imports: |
dplyr, magrittr, mvtnorm, purrr, rlang, sf, tidyr |
| Published: |
2026-05-02 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.windAC |
| Author: |
Paul Rabie [aut],
Daniel Riser-Espinoza [aut, cre],
Trent McDonald [ctb],
Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. [cph, fnd] |
| Maintainer: |
Daniel Riser-Espinoza <despinoza at west-inc.com> |
| License: |
GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GNU General Public License] |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
windAC results |
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