The Animal Movement Program Integrating GIS with Spatial

The Animal Movement Program: Integrating GIS with Spatial Analysis Of Animal Movements U. S. Department of Interior U. S. Geological Survey Alaska Biological Science Center Glacier Bay Field Station

The Animal Movement Program l l The need for a program integrating GIS and animal movement analysis What Animal Movement can do How do I make it run on my computer? The next version

Other movement programs l l l l Homer Cal. Home Mac. Paal Antelope Wildtrak Telem Ranges V Many single-function programs

What was missing? l l l Integration with GIS (none) A full suite of analysis functions (Ranges? ) Ability to handle a wide variety of data (none) Extensibility (none) Ability to run on all major operating systems and processors (none)

Animal Movement is an Arc. View Extension l l Arc. Info/Arc. View is the most widely used GIS program Arc. View is available for all major operating systems and processors Arc. View has a versatile built-in object oriented programming language Extensions to Arc. View can be loaded and unloaded easily

Animal Movement l l Will utilize any type of point data that can be brought into Arc. View Works in any projection* Works on any selected subset of data* Produces Coverages, Grids, or Tables i. e. all output is compatible with Arc. View *Except Gin= Gout 2 G = Garbage

Changes to the Arc. View Doc Buttons Tools Menu

Most of The Sample Data Dungeness Crab Pacific Halibut

MCP Home Range Minimum Convex Polygon

Kernel Home Range Analysis

Kernel Home Range Analysis

Harmonic Mean Point Theme Shaded by Z values Harmonic Mean Raster Theme

Jennrich-Turner Home Range 95% ellipse Minor axis Major axis

Bootstrapping Home Range Sample Size

Site Fidelity Test Monte Carlo simulated random walk Actual movements, within MCP home range

Site Fidelity with and without boundaries

Circular Statistics Vector histogram with mean vector in red Movement path

Text output from the Circular Statistics Function

Histogram Production

Outlier removal and Probability MCPs

Path Graphics Obsrv_date=Thu July 30 08: 55: 26 1992 Number of days since last sample=5 Distance traveled = 89. 86

Point to Polyline Generation

Point Buffer

Random Selection

Generate Random Points Polygon

Spider Analysis From all points to the harmonic mean

Spider Analysis From all Points to the nearest Point or Polygon in another Coverage

Other View Tools l l l Point statistics (36 calculated values) Tests of complete spatial randomness Nearest neighbor analysis Classify points by polygons Calculate distances between themes

Other Attribute-based Tools l l l Table export Aggregate/summarize attributes Sort attribute tables Calculate cumulative fields Calculate area, perimeter, length in projected units

What else can Animal Movement be used for? l l l Analysis of many point phenomena LSCV is the best method of determining Kernel smoothing factor to use in Spatial Analyst Extension density estimation Odds and ends are useful for filling various holes in Arc. View’s capabilities

About Animal Movement

To Run Animal Movement. . . l l l Have Arc. View 3. 0 or 3. 1 installed Download it at www. absc. usgs. gov/glba/gistools. htm Put it in the ext 32 folder If you want to use the Raster functions, such as the Kernel Home Range, then you will need Spatial Analyst Select Spatial Animal Movement from the “Extensions” menu choice Have a fast machine or patience for a few functions

Animal Movement Ver. 2. 0 l l Batch Processing* Habitat Analysis Functions w w l l Compositional Analysis Availability Analysis Spider/Distance Analysis* Classify Points by Polygons* More Random Generation Tools* Dirichlet Tesselation and Delaunay Triangulation* Static and Dynamic Interaction A Few Statistics w w Spearman’s Rho Mann-Whitney U test Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Rank Test Regression