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
New CRAN release of mrds and Distance R packages
05 November 2024Announcing new major releases of the mrds package, version 3.0.0, and Distance package, version 2.0.0.
Introductory workshop 07-18 October 2024
10 July 2024Registration now open for the October 2024 introductory distance sampling workshop. Registration deadline is 09 September 2024.
Camera Trap Distance Sampling workshop 27-31 May 2024
23 March 2024Registration now open for the May 2024 Camera Trap Distance Sampling workshop. Registration deadline is 15th May 2024. In addition, the widening participation scholarship application period closes 8th April 2024.
Introductory workshop 04-15 March 2024
22 January 2024Registration now open for the March 2024 introductory distance sampling workshop. Registration deadline is 21 February 2024. In addition, the widening participation scholarship application period closes 24 January 2024.
Introductory workshop 04-15 March 2024
16 January 2024Accepting widening participation scholarship applications now; General registration open 22 January 2024
New CRAN release of mrds and Distance packages
04 January 2024We announce the release of mrds 2.3.0 and Distance 1.0.9 on CRAN. An important update is that the default encounter rate variance estimator for point transect surveys has now been changed from the ‘P3’ estimator to the ‘P2’ estimator. Please follow link for further details.
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