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Continuous-Time Movement Modeling. Functions for identifying, fitting, and applying continuous-space, continuous-time stochastic movement models to animal tracking data.
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The data import to ctmmweb #35

Closed katkagasparova closed 4 years ago

katkagasparova commented 4 years ago

I have spatial data from GPS satellite units. The position was transmitted every hour with several days-long gaps. Each record include the ID of animal, time, date, longitude, latitude. I want to analyze them by using ctmm web, as I cannot work with R. I got stacked on data import, I understand they must be in the format of MoveBank, but how I can transfer them into this format when my data are not uploaded in MoveBank. I already tried to add two commas "time GMT" and "date GMT", but still the data are not imported correctly. I would appreciate any help, thanks.

chfleming commented 4 years ago

You can import your data into MoveBank without making them publicly available. But, otherwise, you need to have the date and time together in a UTC/GMT "timestamp" column, and the timestamp needs to be in a canonical format. Also, make sure to not edit your data in Microsoft Excel, because it will corrupt your timestamps.

https://ctmm-initiative.github.io/ctmm/reference/as.telemetry.html

https://www.movebank.org/node/2381

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ctmm-user