Local data

Working with local data

Often, datasets persists on your local hard drive. Firetail supports a range of formats to be loaded via the file menu:

open local

Firetail 4 unifies loading of Movebank data and e-obs data via the new

File > Open CSV...

menu entry.

When selecting datasets you may also select multiple files at once (shift select). These datasets will be opened in one viewport.

Overview of supported data

Data Type origin contains common extension from FT Version
GPS Movebank lat/lon -gps.txt 1
GPS e-obs lat/lon -gps.txt 1
GPS Ornitela lat/lon via movebank 5
GPS Technosmart lat/lon .csv 5
GPS Vectronics lat/lon -gps.csv 5 (experimental)
Reference Data Movebank categorial/numeric -reference-data.csv 4
ACC e-obs bursts -acc.txt 1
ACC Ornitela gps-coupled/plain via movebank 5
ACC Technosmart gps-coupled/bursts - 5
ACC Vectronics - binv2 5 (experimental)
ECG e-obs - -ecg.txt 4
Magnetic e-obs - -ecg.txt 3
Quaternion e-obs - -quat.txt 3
ACC Annotations Firetail tabular annotations2.csv 4

E-OBS Datasets

Tags by e-obs offer state-of-the-art solutions to animal tracking. Data gathered from these tags can be imported directly into Firetail using File > Open E-OBS Files.

E-obs and related modern tags feature a wide range of sensor data (see Event data) that Firetail can show fully synchronized.

Given data from an IMU (inertial measurement unit) is present, Firetail offers a visualization option to show the spatial orientation of the e-obs tracking device. See also Acceleration Data.

Technosmart Datasets

Starting with Firetail 5 some of the most widespread Technosmart tags are supported:

  • Axy-Trek
  • Axy-5

Loading Movebank CSV data

Movebank data can be imported directly via our API interface. Loading local CSVs is possible via File > Open Movebank CSV File.

See also: Movebank data

Previous downloads

Data that has been downloaded previously via the Movebank data can be accessed directly.

  1. Open File > Open Downloaded Data.
  2. Choose a dataset, hit OK

open downloaded