ISSS608 2016-17 T3 Assign CHEN YINJUE
VAST Challenge 2017 : Help Rose-Crested Blue Pipit
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Background
Mistford, a mid-size city, locates to the southwest of a large nature preserve. The city has a small industrial area with four light-manufacturing endeavors. Recently, it is found that the number of nesting pairs of the Rose-Crested Blue Pipit, a popular local bird due to its attractive plumage and pleasant songs, is decreasing! What happened to Rose-Crested Blue Pipit's habitat? It is time for us to act to detect reasons and save the birds!
The Boonsong Lekagul Nature Preserve is used by people for day-trips, overnight camping or sometimes just passing through to access main thoroughfares on the opposite sides of the preserve. Vehicles entering and exiting the preserve must pay a fee based on their number of axles (personal auto, recreational trailer, semi-trailer, etc.) and therefore generate a data stream with entry/exit timestamps and vehicle type. There are also other locations in the park that register traffic passing through, which includes gate, general-gate, camp site, ranger-stop and ranger-base. All these locations have sensors to record vehicles entering/exiting/passing by.
Now, it’s suspected that some of the behaviours of vehicles should take responsibilities for the decline of number of nesting pairs of the birds. To prove the hypothesis, we would try to perform data visualization and hopefully can get some insights by finding patterns of vehicles behaviours so that we can suggest to help prevent possible further damages to Rose-Crested Blue Pipit’s habitat and hence save the birds!
