Hi All,

Thank you Sebastian and Paolo for your help.

In the short term, I am trying to achieve nicer maps, to get an idea of where 
the animal is hanging out and inform future VHF session. To this end, what I 
would like to do is to draw the lines from my triangulations and, once I have 
the triangle in QGIS, calculate the centroid of that triangle in order to have 
a ‘point’ for where the animal was.

Over the long term (i.e., in the Fall), I would like to analyze home range to 
get an idea of what types of forest the animals were using and then perform 
resource selection function analyses. I would use the centroid of the triangles 
obtained via triangulation to estimate the home range via MCP or some other 
method.

Does that make sense?

I have tried to use the Azimuth and Distance package to draw the lines from my 
triangulations, but without much success.

I am familiar and comfortable with R, I will check that package out. Any tips 
to get me started with it?

As for Movebank, I know of it but I do not have a reliable internet connection 
while I am in the field, so I cannot really use that.

Best,

Matteo Rizzuto

PhD Student
Ecosystem Ecology Lab | SN3106
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL, Canada
+1 (709) 743 8012

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> Greetings everyone,
>
> I am a PhD student at Memorial University of Newfoundland and my research 
> investigates patterns of resource selection and space use of Snowshoe hares 
> in relation to the nutrient content of their food.
>
> I am currently collecting space-use data from radio collared Snowshoe hares, 
> via triangulation. While in the field, I use an iPad to annotate the results 
> of my triangulations and to draw a sketch of my lines, to get an idea of 
> where and how big each triangle is. However, I would like to produce some 
> more polished maps showing the results of my triangulations, ideally one for 
> each collar separately.
>
> I installed the AniMov plugin but I am not too sure where to start or how it 
> works. I could not find a tutorial or a user manual online. Could anyone 
> point me to such resources? Or help me figure out how to do this?
>
> My .csv dataset contains UTM coordinates for every listening point I take 
> bearings from, as well as a the bearing for the direction from which I heard 
> the strongest signal for each collar. I also already have a QGIS map of the 
> general area where my hares are.
>
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> Best,
>
> Matteo Rizzuto
>
> PhD Student
> Ecosystem Ecology Lab | SN3106
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
> St. John's, NL, Canada
> +1 (709) 743 8012
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> Hello,
>
> What do you want to achieve? Nicer maps or specific analysis of home range?
>
> If you want to visualise the data there are several options. You may consider 
> using Movebank.org for example. Which is easy, intuitive and has great 
> rasters.
>
> Using ánimos is best via R. Are you confortable in that programming language?
>
>
> Sebastian
>
> > On 13 Jul 2017, at 13:34, Matteo Rizzuto <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings everyone,
> >
> > I am a PhD student at Memorial University of Newfoundland and my research 
> > investigates patterns of resource selection and space use of Snowshoe hares 
> > in relation to the nutrient content of their food.
> >
> > I am currently collecting space-use data from radio collared Snowshoe 
> > hares, via triangulation. While in the field, I use an iPad to annotate the 
> > results of my triangulations and to draw a sketch of my lines, to get an 
> > idea of where and how big each triangle is. However, I would like to 
> > produce some more polished maps showing the results of my triangulations, 
> > ideally one for each collar separately.
> >
> > I installed the AniMov plugin but I am not too sure where to start or how 
> > it works. I could not find a tutorial or a user manual online. Could anyone 
> > point me to such resources? Or help me figure out how to do this?
> >
> > My .csv dataset contains UTM coordinates for every listening point I take 
> > bearings from, as well as a the bearing for the direction from which I 
> > heard the strongest signal for each collar. I also already have a QGIS map 
> > of the general area where my hares are.
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Matteo Rizzuto
> >
> > PhD Student
> > Ecosystem Ecology Lab | SN3106
> > Memorial University of Newfoundland
> > St. John's, NL, Canada
> > +1 (709) 743 8012
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> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:38:40 +0200
> From: Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AniMov] Help with first step in AniMov
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> Hi Matteo,
>
> Il 13/07/2017 14:34, Matteo Rizzuto ha scritto:
> > I am currently collecting space-use data from radio collared Snowshoe
> > hares, via triangulation. While in the field, I use an iPad to annotate
> > the results of my triangulations and to draw a sketch of my lines, to
> > get an idea of where and how big each triangle is. However, I would like
> > to produce some more polished maps showing the results of my
> > triangulations, ideally one for each collar separately.
> >
> > I installed the AniMov plugin but I am not too sure where to start or
> > how it works. I could not find a tutorial or a user manual online. Could
> > anyone point me to such resources? Or help me figure out how to do this?
> >
> > My .csv dataset contains UTM coordinates for every listening point I
> > take bearings from, as well as a the bearing for the direction from
> > which I heard the strongest signal for each collar. I also already have
> > a QGIS map of the general area where my hares are.
>
> for simple descriptive analyses you can use basic QGIS to import your
> data, overlay to base maps, show heathmaps, draw contour lines, etc.
> For more quantitative analyses you can install the plugin and calculate
> kernel analyses with different methods.
> All the best.
> --
> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
> https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis
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