1. 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

2. 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

3. Other movement programs
Homer
CalHome
MacPaal
Antelope
Wildtrak
Telem
Ranges V
Many single-function programs

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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= Gout G = Garbage

7. Changes to the ArcView View Doc
Buttons
Menu
Tools

8. Most of The Sample Data
Dungeness Crab
Pacific Halibut

9. MCP Home Range
Minimum Convex Polygon

10. Kernel Home Range Analysis

11. Kernel Home Range Analysis

12. Harmonic Mean Harmonic Mean Point Theme Shaded by Z values
Harmonic Mean Raster Theme

13. Jennrich-Turner Home Range
95% ellipse
Minor axis
Major axis

14. Bootstrapping Home Range Sample Size

15. Site Fidelity Test Monte Carlo simulated random walk
Actual movements, within
MCP home range

16. Site Fidelity with and without boundaries

17. Circular Statistics Vector histogram with mean vector in red
Movement path

18. Text output from the Circular Statistics Function

19. Histogram Production

20. Outlier removal and Probability MCPs

21. Path Graphics
Obsrv_date=Thu July 30 08:55: Number of days since last sample=5 Distance traveled = 89.86

22. Point to Polyline Generation

23. Point Buffer

24. Random Selection

25. Generate Random Points
Polygon

26. Spider Analysis
From all points to the harmonic mean

27. Spider Analysis From all Points to the nearest Point or Polygon
in another Coverage

28. Other View Tools Point statistics (36 calculated values)
Tests of complete spatial randomness
Nearest neighbor analysis
Classify points by polygons
Calculate distances between themes

29. Other Attribute-based Tools
Table export
Aggregate/summarize attributes
Sort attribute tables
Calculate cumulative fields
Calculate area, perimeter, length in projected units

30. 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

31. About Animal Movement

32. To Run Animal Movement... Have ArcView 3.0 or 3.1 installed
Download it at
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

33. 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