Data for “Availability bias and responsive movement during ground-based wildlife surveys revealed by concurrent thermal drone surveys”

DataShare: the Open Data Repository of Iowa State University 2026 Dataset Open access

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Authors: David Delaney, Tyler M Harms, Stephen Dinsmore
DOI: 10.25380/iastate.32180748
Cited by: 1

Abstract

We used thermal-imaging drone surveys to observe nocturnal spotlight surveys of white-tailed deer in Iowa, USA. Our goal was to assess whether traditional spotlight surveys accurately estimate deer abundance. This repository contains one CSV file and two video clips from thermal drone surveys.

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Journal / source
DataShare: the Open Data Repository of Iowa State University
Publication date
6 May 2026
Document type
Dataset