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

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

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)

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

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

Changes to the ArcView View Doc

Buttons

ToolsMenu

Most of The Sample Data

Pacific Halibut

Dungeness Crab

MCP Home Range

Minimum Convex Polygon

Kernel Home Range Analysis

Kernel Home Range Analysis

Harmonic Mean

Harmonic Mean Point ThemeShaded by Z values

Harmonic Mean Raster Theme

Jennrich-Turner Home Range

95% ellipse

Major axis

Minor axis

Bootstrapping Home Range Sample Size

Site Fidelity Test

N

10 Random WalksMinimum Convex PolygonObserved Movement Path

1 0 1 2 Kilometers

Monte Carlo simulatedrandom walk

Actual movements, within MCP home range

Site Fidelity with and without boundaries

Circular Statistics

Movement path

Vector histogramwith mean vectorin red

Text output from theCircular 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 Polygonin another Coverage

Other View Tools

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 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?

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 ArcView’s capabilities

About Animal Movement

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

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

Spearman’s Rho Mann-Whitney U test Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Rank Test Regression