Creates survey designs for distance sampling surveys. These designs can be assessed for various effort and coverage statistics. Once the user is satisfied with the design characteristics they can generate a set of transects to use in their distance sampling survey. Many of the designs implemented in this R package were first made available in our 'Distance' for Windows software and are detailed in Chapter 7 of Advanced Distance Sampling, Buckland et. al. (2008, ISBN-13: 978-0199225873).
Details
The main functions in this package are: make.region, make.design, generate.transects and run.coverage. See also write.transects for examples of how to export surveys generated by dssd.
Further information on distance sampling methods and example code is available at http://distancesampling.org/R/.
Also see our website for vignettes / example code at http://examples.distancesampling.org.
For help with distance sampling and this package, there is a Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/distance-sampling.