/ Recent content on Firetail Manual Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us /0.5.0/getting-started/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/getting-started/ Getting started About Firetail Welcome to Firetail. Firetail provides you with a blazingly fast environment for the visualisation and annotation of modern, large-scale GPS, burst and tracking data. This manual should guide you through the basic steps of getting Firetail productive in your research environment. Installation Obtain and install the latest copy of Firetail from: Firetail Releases Installation Guide Licensing Obtaining a license for your Firetail removes the evaluation time limit of 10 minutes. /0.5.0/installation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/installation/ Installation Guide Firetail is available for Mac, Linux and Windows. Installation Windows We successfully tested Firetail on Windows 7 and 10. As Microsoft no longer ships security updates for this platform, we strongly suggest to switch to an alternative as soon as possible. In general, on Windows systems please make sure to have the latest updates installed. Installation: Navigate to your Downloads folder in an explorer window and start firetail-setup-latest. /0.5.0/licensing/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/licensing/ Firetail Licensing Obtaining a license for your Firetail removes the evaluation time limit of 10 minutes. Additionally, the limitations restricting GPS samples and Burst samples will be adapted to your needs, based on the license you obtain. Obtaining a license The easiest way to obtain a license is the Help > Register... dialog. Choose Get Trial License... to contact us for a current license. If you already know the scope of your study/analysis in terms of hardware and data to-be-analyzed, feel free to include any details. /0.5.0/map-window/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/map-window/ Map window [All topics] Visible Information The map gives you an overview over all available and currently selected data sets. Double clicking any visible trajectory will show you the GPS coordinates of all activated (checkboxed) tags having the same timestamp. Most map features are covered in the respective sections of this manual. The map viewport is directly influenced by: time controls bursts events tag selections sunrise information For acceleration data, it is possible to select consecutive timestamp clusters within the map via shift-<left mouse button>. /0.5.0/open-files/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/open-files/ Open Files panel data selection To show which individuals/tags are shown in the map Firetail provides the Open File panel. It can be used to select subsets of the data or the complete dataset (default). focus regions containing data For each track, you can focus the current map on the set of selected points by clicking the respective checkbox below the ‘eye’ symbol. /0.5.0/sample-projects/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/sample-projects/ Sample projects Firetail provides several sample projects that are featured in the Movebank project. These projects will be shown right after the first start of Firetail. Loading a sample project The datasets shown are associated to studies available for free from the Movebank homepage. We provide the abstract, author list, links to the publication homepage, links to the original data source, and some basic information on each study on roll-over. /0.5.0/time-control/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/time-control/ Time control GPS tracking data is focused on timestamps that are enriched with location data, accelleration data or spatial orientation data. Thus, the central unit common to all Firetail data is a timestamp, a measurement. Note that acceleration data does not necessarily align to GPS data directly, for it commonly may often not exist for every GPS sample. Instead, this kind of data is often transmitted from the tags (sender units) as bursts starting at a defined timestamp. /0.5.0/event-window/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/event-window/ Event data window Some tags support the recording of event data. Inspecting event data If events are available in your dataset you can visually inspect the events by selecting Event Data in the Window Selection Tabs (vertical left). Alternatively, you may use the menu entry Windows > Event Data to select how to see the event data (top, right, or as floating window). Note: For larger sets of tags, a selection of subsets is helpful /0.5.0/acceleration-window/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/acceleration-window/ Acceleration data window Bursts Modern tags support capturing acceleration data along with location data. As opposed to GPS data, acceleration data is captured as bursts. A burst is a set of measurements starting at a specific timestamp. These measurements do not necessarily align to a known GPS position as they are often recorded following a predefined schedule of fixed intervals. Acceleration data captured by tags captures the extent of x, y and z acceleration, quite similar to common smartphones. /0.5.0/layers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/layers/ Visible Layers GPS layer This layer contains the GPS tracks for the currently selected tag data. Open Street Map (OSM) By default, Firetail operates using Open Street Map cartographic material hosted on a dedicated server. Bing Alternatively, it is possible to retrieve satellite images from Bing to inspect terrain features visually. Night/Day – Sunrise For behavioral studies, information about sunrise and sunset may be crucial. Firetail features a sunrise mode to embed this information in the current viewport. /0.5.0/local-data/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/local-data/ Working with local data Commnonly datasets are available on your local hard drive. Firetail supports a range of formats to be loaded via the file menu: EOBS Datasets Tags by e-obs offer state-of-the-art solutions to animal tracking. Data gathered from these tags can be imported directly into Firetail using File > Open E-OBS Files. Loading Movebank CSV data Movebank data can usually be imported directly via our API interface. Loading local CSVs is still possible via File > Open Movebank CSV File. /0.5.0/movebank-data/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/movebank-data/ Loading Movebank projects Movebank data by … To access data from Movebank you must register for a movebank account. Then, within Firetail use on of File > Download Data by Tag ID File > Download Data by Individual ID File > Download Data by Deployment ID to make a dataset available locally. A window will prompt you to enter your Movebank credentials. You may select to save your credentials within Firetail. /0.5.0/keyboard-shortcuts/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /0.5.0/keyboard-shortcuts/ Keyboard shortcuts Function Shortcut Context 1m before Ctrl + Arrow Left Time Control 1m later Ctrl + Arrow Right Time Control later (data dependent) Arrow Right Time Control earlier (data dependent) Arrow Left Time Control fix opening time bracket Ctrl + E Time Control fix closing time bracket Ctrl + R Time Control reset time bracket Ctrl + T Time Control zoom map in mouse scroll up Map zoom map out mouse scroll down Map