Welcome to the Distance project website
The Distance project provides software for the design and analysis of distance sampling surveys of wildlife populations. This software takes two forms: a Windows-based program and a suite of packages for the statistical programming language R.
News
Introductory workshop 09-20 October 2023
14 August 2023Registration deadline approaching fast
New versions of Distance and mrds packages
03 August 2023We are pleased to announce the release of new versions of our R packages Distance and mrds. The new release adds the ability to fit detection functions (CDS and MCDS) using the same optimizer used by Distance for Windows.
Design workshop registration open
02 August 2023Registration is open for our online workshop on “Practical design and simulation to optimise distance sampling surveys”, to be taught from 28th - 31st August 2023.
Introductory workshop 10-21 July 2023
11 May 2023Accepting widening participation scholarship applications now; General registration open 23 May 2023
Introductory workshop 20-31 March 2023
27 January 2023Accepting widening participation scholarship applications now closed
Design and Simulation R packages
12 January 2023We would like to make you aware that our design and simulation packages (dssd and dsims) are temporarily only available from our development repository on github. Please follow link for instructions on installing them.
New versions of R packages
16 November 2022We are pleased to announce the imminent release of new versions of our R packages Distance and mrds. The information below will be particularly relevant to users of dht2. We recommend all users of these packages update to the newest versions.
Introductory workshop 09-20 January 2023
24 October 2022Registration is now open; closing on 30 November 2022
Release of Distance 7.5
07 September 2022We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of Distance for Windows, Distance 7.5. This version upgrades to use 64 bit R and also contains new versions of our R packages which are also now on CRAN.
Distance workshops autumn 2022
16 August 2022Registration is now open for our autumn online training workshops, on camera trap distance sampling, methods for when animals are missed on the trackline, and design and simulation.