Using this function the user can transform the Argos diagnostic data for location
error into a form usable as a covariance matrix to approximate the location error with a
bivariate Gaussian distribution. The resulting data.frame should be attached back to the data
with cbind
to use with the crwMLE
function.
argosDiag2Cov(Major, Minor, Orientation)
A data.frame
with the following columns
The log standard deviation of the location error in the x coordinate
The log standard deviation of the location error in the x coordinate
The correlation of the bivariate location error ellipse
A vector containing the major axis information for each observation (na values are ok)
A vector containing the minor axis information for each observation (na values are ok)
A vector containing the angle orientation of the Major axis from North (na values are ok)
Devin S. Johnson