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Here you will find the latest information about Firetail® and animal tracking.
Firetail 12 – now available
We are glad to announce that Firetail 12 is now available. What's new? Revised annotation module - local file annotation Annotating of acceleration, magnetometer and gyroscopic data in Firetail is now possible. In previous versions the annotated data sets had to be...
Annotation of vulture behavior from acceleration data
We joined forces with https://www.tropicalmovementlab.com/ (OSA conservation) for an article on the behavioral prediction of King vultures featured in the latest e-obs newsletter.
Now active in 15 countries worldwide – and growing
We are pleased to announce that Firetail is now being used in 15 countries on all continents. We are delighted to see how the project is flourishing, precisely because we put our heart and soul into it! Keep recommending us, Firetail is improving with your challenges!...
Thank you for an exciting 2023
🎄 Firetail 11.1.4 release Our latest release features some small, yet useful improvements. We extended the range of supported file formats for Vectronic Position files and improved the detection of Argos file types. Firetail now features initial support for OpenCollar...
Registration open: Smithsonian MoL on Data Viz
We are grateful to contribute to the data viz talks of the Smithsonian Movement of Life presentations. Register now: https://wildlabs.net/event/data-viz-inspo-holidays
Firetail 11.1.3 released
What's new? Improved Video Annotation Great news for everybody that wishes to overlay their behavior datasets (GPS, acceleration, IMU) with gold standards from annotated video observations! Firetail support for BORIS has been improved and can now handle STATE...
Firetail Black Friday 2023
Hello everyone! In the week leading up to Black Friday, we are pleased to announce that we on the Firetail team have some great deals for researchers, environmentalists and project/park managers. If you get a quote during Black Friday week, you'll pay 50% less for...
Tutorial: csv magnetometer/acceleration uploads to Movebank
A new tutorial is available that explains how to define custom file formats in Movebank that handle one-value-per-line acceleration, magnetometer data and GPS. Available on our Firetail tutorial channel.
Firetail 11.1 released
We're happy to announce that Firetail 11.1 is now ready for download! New possiblities to connect to downstream tools With Firetail 11.1 you can quickly select what matters most. In practice, you may have to apply specific algorithms in R or process your selection in...
Wildlabs: visualizing animal tracking data
We're glad to see that Firetail was the first tool to be mentioned in this Wildlabs discussion on how to visualize animal tracking data! If not already, make sure to become a part of wildlabs.net. It's a friendly, open and professional community - highly...
movement analysis and visualization for wild animal research