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dsm - Density surface modelling

What is dsm?

dsm provides a Generalized Additive Model (GAM)-based approach to calculate spatially-explicit estimates of animal abundance from distance sampling (also presence/absence and strip transect) data. Several utility functions are provided for model checking, plotting and variance estimation.

Open Access paper describing the methods: Miller, DL, ML Burt, EA Rexstad and L Thomas (2013). Spatial models for distance sampling data: recent developments and future directions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Using dsm

Examples of how to use dsm and other distance sampling R packages are available at examples.distancesampling.org.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.