Tutorial: The Env-DATA System in Movebank

This is a tutorial showing how to use the Env-DATA System in Movebank. The Env-DATA System (Environmental Data Automated Track Annotation System) is a set of free tools on Movebank to help you link animal movement data with information from global environmental datasets, like weather models and satellite imagery. Current instructions are at https://www.movebank.org/cms/movebank-content/env-data.

UPDATE: Note that the backend system described starting at 17:30 is replaced by the option to submit requests to annotate non-track data directly through Movebank. Follow instructions to "annotate generic time-location records" and "annotate over a gridded area" at https://www.movebank.org/cms/movebank-content/env-data-track-annotation.

Outline
0:00 Intro to Env-DATA
5:00 Env-DATA pages on Movebank
6:15 Intro to Movebank and Tracking Data Map
8:30 Submitting Env-DATA requests on Movebank
15:30 Viewing request status and results on Movebank
17:30 Submitting Env-DATA requests for non-track data
20:30 Submitting requests to annotate generic location-time data
24:00 Submitting requests to annotate over a gridded area
30:30 Viewing request status and results outside Movebank
32:00 R code for submitting requests and creating input files

To learn more about Env-DATA, see

https://www.movebank.org/cms/movebank-content/env-data

and

Dodge S, Bohrer G, Weinzierl R, Davidson SC, Kays R, Douglas D, Cruz S, Han J, Brandes D, and Wilkelski M (2013) The Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) System: Linking animal tracks with environmental data: Movement Ecology 1(3). https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-3933-1-3

Funding: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Max Planck Society, NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure, NASA ABoVE project, and NASA Earth Science Division

For questions contact [email protected].