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:
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.
- Open
File > Open Downloaded Data
. - Choose a dataset, hit
OK