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Main Title Automatic Fish Tracking System for the U.S. E.P.A.'s (Environmental Protection Agency's) Monticello Ecological Research Station.
Author Zinnel, K. C. ; Ross, M. J. ; Kuechle, V. B. ;
CORP Author Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Dept. of Ecology and Behavioral Biology.;Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, MN.
Year Published 1981
Report Number EPA-600/J-81-676;
Stock Number PB84-142454
Additional Subjects Fishes ; Underwater tracking ; Animal behavior ; Monitoring ; Radio transmitters ; Radio antennas ; Performance evaluation ; Reprints ;
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Abstract An automatic tracking system controlled by an RCA 1802 microprocessor was developed to locate fish in a 400 m outdoor experimental stream channel at the U.S. EPA Monticello Ecological Research Station. The monitoring network consisted of 12 horizontally polarized antennas spaced at 30 m intervals. The antennas were sequentially switched into a receiver and the signal strength at each antenna was measured. The microprocessor controlled all timing, switching and measurement functions. Each fish tracked by the system was tagged with an implanted radio transmitter which had a unique frequency in the 53 MHz band. Selecting a particular fish for tracking was equivalent to requesting a particular frequency entered into the memory of the receiver. The microprocessor determined which antenna had the maximum signal level and printed this information along with fish number and time of day.
Availability Notes Pub. in Underwater Telemetry-Tracking Aquatic Animals Newsletter 11(1), p9 1981.
NTIS Title Notes Journal article.
Title Annotations Reprint: Automatic Fish Tracking System for the U.S. E.P.A.'s (Environmental Protection Agency's) Monticello Ecological Research Station.
PUB Date Free Form c1981
Category Codes 6C; 57Z
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Primary Description 600/03
Document Type NT
Cataloging Source NTIS/MT
Control Number 409018067
Origin NTIS
Type CAT