Working with Reference Data

Loading Reference Data

Movebank and other project provide reference-data files that allow for annotations on the level of individuals. Currently, whenever reference data files are detected alongside with your dataset (in the same folder) it will open as well.

Reference data named reference-data.csv is detected automatically for cloudscenes and should comply to the movebank definition. For movebank data the reference annotation is expected to have the same name as your dataset (without file extension) and a -reference-data.csv suffix. See also: Movebank chapter on reference data.

Starting from Firetail 4, detected reference data can be toggled via the Reference Data tab on the left side of the main viewport.

Tabular View

Firetail provides a tabular view to work with reference data.

The format resembles the information in reference data files.

Click on the column header to

• sort the data by this column
• color the individuals automatically

The associated trajectories will be colored accordingly, allowing for a quick way to analyze group-wise behaviour in your dataset.