Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 5 Number 8: EMEC Billia Croo Wave Test Site: Wildlife Observations Project Annual Report

5. Recommendations

5.1 It is recommended that work should be undertaken to carry out calibration of the land-based wildlife observations. The objective of this calibration exercise will be to evaluate how accurately the observers at the land-based vantage points are able to detect, identify and locate wildlife species within and at the outermost limits of the observation area, and thus derive a site-specific 'detection function' that can be applied to the analysis of the wildlife data