Fig. 1

A conceptual framework of the trade-offs in bandwidth and battery limited bio-logging instrument programming. We highlight three axes: temporal and spatial resolution of the data, longevity of the data stream (and battery), and continuity or completeness of the data record. Position of the icon indicates roughly the priority balance for each of three setting regimes discussed here: a exploratory settings with multiple data streams duty-cycled [10], b continuous dive summary records only [5], and c continuous time-series only