Instructional videos
These videos are the first several lectures from the international training workshops in St Andrews. As an introduction to the subject of distance sampling, we encourage you to view them in the sequence provided. We would appreciate your comments on these. In addition, we will be adding additional videos showing import and analysis of data.
Introduction to distance sampling (part I)
Introduction to distance sampling (part II)
The detection function
Ways to conceptualise density estimation in line transects
Distance sampling assumptions (part I)
Distance sampling assumptions (part II)
Measuring fit of detection function
Fundamental features of Distance software and organisation of Distance project
Data import for density surface model construction
Simple density surface model fitting