ARSET - Introduction to the Integration of Animal Tracking and Remote Sensing
Start Date:
May 20, 2025
End Date:
May 22, 2025
Description:
Participants will learn how to integrate telemetry and remote sensing data by applying a basic data standardization process to animal tracking data, visualizing the animals’ distribution via home ranges with utilization distributions, downloading remote sensing data, and characterizing animals’ habitats in a species distribution model to infer habitat use. We will discuss balancing tradeoffs from pairing remotely sensed data with animal tracks.
Targeted Audience:
Primary target audience: Movement ecologists, natural resource managers.
Secondary target audience: Remote sensing scientists developing products usable by the primary audience.
Expected Outcomes:
By the end of this training attendees will be able to:
-Identify the types of animal tracking tags and sensors that are commonly used in animal tracking.
-Identify the types of remote sensing data and products that can be used for species distribution models and step-selection functions.
-Recognize the process for integrating remote sensing and animal tracking data in species distribution models and step selection functions to facilitate an understanding of animal movements in relation to their environment.
-Recognize key takeaways from examples of terrestrial and marine applications that inform and characterize animals’ habitats.
