The Animal Movement Program: Integrating GIS with Spatial Analysis Of Animal Movements

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The Animal Movement ProgramIntegrating GIS with
Spatial Analysis Of Animal Movements

• U.S. Department of Interior
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Alaska Biological Science Center
• Glacier Bay Field Station

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The Animal Movement Program

• 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

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Other movement programs

• Homer
• CalHome
• MacPaal
• Antelope
• Wildtrak
• Telem
• Ranges V
• Many single-function programs

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What was missing?

• 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)

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Animal Movement is an ArcView Extension

• ArcInfo/ArcView is the most widely used GIS
  program
• ArcView is available for all major operating
  systems and processors
• ArcView has a versatile built-in object oriented
  programming language
• Extensions to ArcView can be loaded and unloaded
  easily

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Animal Movement

• Will utilize any type of point data that can be
  brought into ArcView
• Works in any projection
• Works on any selected subset of data
• Produces Coverages, Grids, or Tables i.e.
  all output is compatible with ArcView
• Except Gin Gout2 G Garbage

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Changes to the ArcView View Doc
Buttons
Menu
Tools
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Most of The Sample Data
Dungeness Crab
Pacific Halibut
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MCP Home Range
Minimum Convex Polygon
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Kernel Home Range Analysis
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Kernel Home Range Analysis
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Harmonic Mean
Harmonic Mean Point Theme Shaded by Z values
Harmonic Mean Raster Theme
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Jennrich-Turner Home Range
95 ellipse
Minor axis
Major axis
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Bootstrapping Home Range Sample Size
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Site Fidelity Test
Monte Carlo simulated random walk
Actual movements, within MCP home range
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Site Fidelity with and without boundaries
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Circular Statistics
Vector histogram with mean vector in red
Movement path
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Text output from theCircular Statistics Function
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Histogram Production
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Outlier removal and Probability MCPs
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Path Graphics
Obsrv_dateThu July 30 085526 1992 Number of
days since last sample5 Distance traveled 89.86
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Point to Polyline Generation
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Point Buffer
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Random Selection
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Generate Random Points
Polygon
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Spider Analysis
From all points to the harmonic mean
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Spider Analysis
From all Points to the nearest Point or
Polygon in another Coverage
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Other View Tools

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

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Other Attribute-based Tools

• Table export
• Aggregate/summarize attributes
• Sort attribute tables
• Calculate cumulative fields
• Calculate area, perimeter, length in projected
  units

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What else can Animal Movement be used for?

• 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 ArcViews capabilities

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About Animal Movement
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To Run Animal Movement...

• Have ArcView 3.0 or 3.1 installed
• Download it at www.absc.usgs.gov/glba/gistools.htm
  
• Put it in the ext32 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

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Animal Movement Ver. 2.0

• Batch Processing
• Habitat Analysis Functions
• 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
• Spearmans Rho
• Mann-Whitney U test
• Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Rank Test
• Regression