We are planning to collar more brown bear and elk for a project I am working on in Alaska. We want hourly fixes via iridium, we also want to include accelerometers on our collars to gather activity data. We have used telonics in the past and have had bad luck with them. I am considering Lotek and Vectronic and would appreciate some advice on other peoples previous experiences.
Dear Shannon,
Hello.
You can use Followit Lindesberg. Followit provides high quality tracking equipment as well as unique and professional knowledge in radio- and GPS positioning for wildlife biologists. Followit´s tracking products are designed to optimize both animal welfare and research possibilities.
I have used this company's equipment to track wolves in Iran. For more information please see the following site.
All the Best,
Alireza
We have used both Followit and Vectronic collars on muskoxen in Greenland.
We have found the Vectronic collars more reliable and also more precise and have recently only used this brand.
Thank you both for the helpful answers. We ended up using Vectronic also.
Take care
Shannon
You are welcome, Shannon! If you are looging acceleration data I highly recommend that you check out https://www.schaeuffelhut-berger.de/wordpress/en/services/products/products-firetail-eng/ It is simple an amazing tool for viewing the actual acceleration data together with locations and other metadata from the collar.
Thank you Lars. This is really useful, I appreciate you sharing this.
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