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GIS TOOLS |
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ANIMAL
MOVEMENT |
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Analysis of Telemetry Data in the GIS Environment Course taught
by Philip Hooge in September 2003.
Animal
Movement is an ArcView extension
that contains a collection of over 40 functions specifically
designed to aid in the analysis of animal movement. This data could
be collected from radio tags, sonic tags, Argos satellite tags or
observational data. The program is designed to implement a wide
variety of animal movement functions in an integrated GIS
environment. The program also has significant utility for analyzing
other point phenomena.
This program now only comes in one version that also requires the ESRI
program Spatial Analyst. The
limited function version 1.1 that did not require Spatial Analyst
was removed, as it was no longer being updated.
Version 2.x runs under ArcView 3.0-3.3. A few functions are
disabled until testing is complete.
If you would like to test these functions please contact us.
Please review the primary literature and the online
documentation before using these functions.
As with all software (and especially free software) there are
bugs. We are very
interested in getting bug reports - please send these to PHILIP
HOOGE. The majority
of reported errors have been due to installation, ArcView errors, or
incorrect use. New
versions with bug fixes are frequently added so check back at this
site. We have future plans of porting Animal Movement to ArcGIS but
nothing is available at this time. Please cite the program if you
use it to analyze data for a publication.
Also, we are very interested in hearing how people are using
the program or what they would like to see added to it.
See online documentation (html
or PDF version) for a full description of each function or download
the PowerPoint Presentation for program highlights.
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SPATIAL TOOLS
Spatial Tools is an ArcView extension
that contains a collection of 32 tools that extend the capabilities
of Spatial
Analyst The majority of tools are implementations of functions
available in spatial analyst from Avenue programming or awkwardly in
the map calculator but not from the menu, button, or tool interface.
These include functions to clean up, assemble, aggregate, warp and
analyze grids. The current version, 3.2, was uploaded on 10/20/99.
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OCEANOGRAPHIC
ANALYST
This extension, which is described
in detail in the Fjord Oceanography Monitoring Handbook, was
specially created for the Glacier Bay oceanography project, but is
designed to be used with any oceanographic data set. The
program allows 3- and 4-D analysis and display of volumetric and
time series oceanographic data. It is the only tool
available at the current time that allows integration of full-cast
oceanographic data into a GIS system. It has a special
module for processing Sea-bird CTD data from the raw text form
into a 3-D hierarchical spatial data set. In addition, there
are multiple tools for functions such as calculating photic depth,
integrating chlorophyll-a, processing weather data, exporting and
importing, aggregation, summarizing, etc.
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Download |
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Documentation |
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Fjord
Oceanographic Monitoring Handbook for Glacier Bay (PDF) [985
KB] |
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Oceanographic
Processes at Glacier Bay National Park (PDF)[3.8 MB] |
Credits
Please cite the Oceanographic Analyst
program if you use it to analyze data for a publication as: Hooge, P.N., and E.R. Hooge.
2000. The
Oceanographic Analyst Extension to the ArcView Geographic Information
System version 1.4. U.S.
Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Glacier Bay Field Station.
Cite the Animal Movement program if
you use it in a publication. P. N. Hooge and B. Eichenlaub. 2000. Animal
movement extension to Arcview. ver. 2.0. Alaska Science Center -
Biological Science Office, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK, USA.
Program design, programming, and design of
new algorithms and statistical tests by:
-Philip
N. Hooge Ph.D.
Research Population Ecologist
USGS-Alaska Science Center-Biological Science Office
Glacier Bay Field
Station
Gustavus, AK 99826
philip_hooge@usgs.gov
Additional programming and avenue
consulting by:
-Bill Eichenlaub
GIS Coordinator
Glacier Bay National Park
Gustavus, AK
Bill_Eichenlaub@nps.gov
Documentation and Beta Testing by:
-Elizabeth
K. Solomon
GIS Specialist
USGS-Alaska Science Center-Biological Science Office
Glacier Bay Field Station
Mayflower Island
Douglas, Alaska 99824
Elizabeth_Solomon@nps.gov
Parts of the code were modified from work
by ESRI and other Avenue programmers or translated other programming
languages. Many functions are implementations of algorithms from the
published scientific literature. See bibliography and documentation in
code. |