Group15 Overview

Motivation

Animal migration has long received much attention as a research topic in biology. Information about animal movement serves to allow us to understand animal behavior and their interactions with each other and the environment. In addition, It allows us to address environmental challenges such as climate and land use change.

By understanding animal migration, it helps conservationists to conserve these animals through the protection of their habitats and their resources.

An interactive visual analytics approach could help to empower the scientific community and gain insights into the migration of these animals.

Objective

We present a interactive visual approach to explore and analyze animal movement data. Through this project, we hope that ecologists and conservationists alike will be able to gain insights into the following:

• Bird migration (both as a group and individual) flight path over a period of time.
• How differences in individual characteristics (e.g female vs male, juvenile vs adult) affect flight behavior.
• The home range and territory range of these birds.
• Uniqueness of stopover sites.
• Impact of environment data on bird migration.

Methodology

Time Series Analysis

Calendar Chart

The Calendar Chart will be used to explore the cycle, variability and trend of the migration data. From the calendar chart, a user can see the entire duration of either a group or the individual bird’s journey over the required time period as desired.

Line Chart

We will use the line chart based on the time, such as year, month, day and hour, to further explore the flight pattern of group and individuals, as well as how differences in individual characteristics such as sex and adulthood affect flight pattern.

Scatter Plot

The scatter plot will help to identify outliers in the data set.

Geographic Analysis

Map

The location data will be visualized on the map.

Bin Chart

The bin chart will show the amount of time birds spend at each place. Coloring will be used to differentiate the time period, so that the user is able to tell the location at which the bird spends the longest time at.