There are very small sections of design transects for one stratum that fall over a stratum boundary and end in another stratum--"nibblets" as they have been named. There are 84 of these < 1 m in length and some much larger. As far as I can tell, these only affect design-based estimates and not the model-based density calculations that are the focus of this repo. They were discovered, however, while attempting to calculated design-based estimates from the QC'ed data for comparison to AKaerial. AKaerial deals with "nibblets" internally but applies "programmatic rules" to data not implemented here and has not caught all errors fixed here. Design-based estimates will not be the same between those calculated here and AKaerial.
There are very small sections of design transects for one stratum that fall over a stratum boundary and end in another stratum--"nibblets" as they have been named. There are 84 of these < 1 m in length and some much larger. As far as I can tell, these only affect design-based estimates and not the model-based density calculations that are the focus of this repo. They were discovered, however, while attempting to calculated design-based estimates from the QC'ed data for comparison to AKaerial. AKaerial deals with "nibblets" internally but applies "programmatic rules" to data not implemented here and has not caught all errors fixed here. Design-based estimates will not be the same between those calculated here and AKaerial.