Introducing sftrack: A framework for movement data in R
Matthew Boone, Rocio Joo, Mathieu Basille
Ecology Society of America conference 2020
History of movement data
- Tracking data
- discrete points
- home range analysis, resource selection functions, etc…
- Movement data
- series of steps
- Hidden-Markov Models, step selection functions, etc…
History of movement data
- Proliferation of study in the last 20 years.
- Devices: gps, satellite, accelerometer, light loggers, cameras, telemetry, etc…
- Data sizes increasing rapidly with more sensors
