Aquatic Acoustic Telemetry Data Analysis (ATDA01)

https://www.prstatistics.com/course/aquatic-acoustic-telemetry-data-
analysis-atda01/

This course will be delivered by Stephanie Smedbol (Vemco), Dale Webber 
(Vemco), Sam Johnston (HTI-Vemco USA), Tracey Steig (HTI-Vemco USA) and 
Ryan Mowatt (RSaqua UK) in Glasgow ciuty centre form the 28th January - 
1st  February 2019.

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Monday 28th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
Lecture 1
1) Introduction to Acoustic Telemetry
Acoustic vs radio, satellite, PIT tags
History of acoustic telemetry
Comparison of acoustic technologies from different manufacturers 

2) How Vemco acoustics work
Continuous vs coded vs HR (High Residence) transmission systems
Pinger tags vs sensor tags 

3) Vemco Equipment Overview
Applications of 69 kHz line
Applications of 180 kHz line
Applications of HR (High Residence) technology

4) Designing a Successful Study
Hardware Selection
Tag Programming Considerations
Range Testing
Using Sentinel Tags

5) Vemco Equipment Demo
PPM vs HR coding systems
Surgery techniques

Tuesday 29th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
Lecture 2
1) Preparing for Deployment
Preparing your receivers
Initialization tips
Setting up built-in transmitters

2) System performance considerations
Quiet vs noisy locations
Thermoclines
River flow considerations
Mooring design and receiver attachment

3) Testing your deployment
Using transponding data (includes transponding demonstration)
Using offloaded test data/VUE (includes demonstration)
Important considerations during testing 
Practical 1

4) Case Study 1 – River migration study (traditional PPM coding example)
Study Design
Range test analysis example
Determining receiver spacing
Tag Programming 

Wednesday 30th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
1) Practical 2
Data Management (using Case Study 1 data or other example datasets
Assigning stations in VUE
Time Correction
Identifying false detections
Using VUE’s FDA tool
Marking questionable detections in your exported data

2) Filtering your data
Building filters in VUE
Identifying residency events
What to do with duplicate detections
Sensor Tag Data
Bringing in sensor metadata (.VXM) files
How to handle data from sensor tags with multiple IDs
System Performance Assessment using R1
Using detection data
Using ping data
Using receiver sensor / diagnostic data
Data Analysis
Calculating gate detection probabilities
Calculating swimming speeds
Animating your animal movement data 

Thursday 31st – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30
Lecture 3
1) Introduction to High Residence technology
VPS (PPM and HR)
Theory (how VPS works)
Special deployment considerations
Special considerations for testing your array 

Practical 4
2) Case Study 2 – VPS o Study Design
Range test analysis example  Determining receiver spacing
Tag Programming
Testing the array – how do I know my VPS will work?
Data Analysis
Visualizing animal position data
Home Range example

Friday 1st – Classes from 09:00 to 17:00
Practical 5
1) Case Study 3
VPS using High Residence (HR) technology 

Lecture 4
2) Summary – what have we learned?
Challenges specific to analyzing telemetry data
Practical 6

3) Discuss your work!
Opportunity for course participants to discuss their work with the group 
and seek advice

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Oliver Hooker PhD.
PR statistics

2018 publications - 

Phenotypic and resource use partitioning amongst sympatric lacustrine brown 
trout, Salmo trutta. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI 
10.1093/biolinnean/bly032

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