Firetail Changelog

Firetail v12.0.3, 2024-03-22

• Default separator for features is now “,”
• Fix: checkbox state for outlier filter is ignored

Firetail v12.0.0, 2024-03-15

• Revised annotation mechanisms: local projects
• Annotations: support for the annotation of local projects (tag/ind/deploy)
• FireSOM/Acc Segmentation: saved models restore the category prefix if available
• FireSOM/Acc Segmentation: improved handling of saved category edits
• FireSOM/Acc Segmentation: improved auto-save
• FireSOM/Acc Segmentation: do not overwrite file history
• Vectronic: convert Motion Data Manager folders to burst data
• KML files: initial support for style maps
• KML files: improved robustness of coordinate reading
• Movebank Download: cleanup failed downloads (chunks)
• Movebank Download: avoid timeouts by chunked downloads
• Movebank Download: format entries
• Movebank Download: add deploy ranges
• GeoJson: timestamped placemarks
• GeoJson: inital support for ‘earthquake.usgs.gov’ data
• Map Viewport: right click to copy coordinates
• File types: read ‘.gps’ files as Movebank File Type
• Licensing: support/update expiration reminders on startup
• Licensing: respect license level when updating local Movebank Projects
• Update 2024 copyright, mail addresses and links to www.firetail.de
• Outlier filter: option to filter outliers by maximum reachable distance
• Outlier filter: option to filter outliers by status/type column
• Progress Loader: fix check for empty file list
• Africa Wildlife Tracking: allow for ‘(-)’ as missing value
• Color by Annotation: cache invalidation
• New layer: contrast layer for improved visibility
• Shape files: color by field on right click
• Shape points: blend with background
• Shape points: visibility improvement
• Points of interest: read shapes from csv resources
• Points of interest from csv: improve shape groups
• Accessory data: treat as separate grouping
• Support for projects containing accessory data only
• New setting: confirm open downloads
• New sensor type: light
• New sensor type: external temperature
• New sensor type: barometric types
• Convex Hull: Show convex hull for current bracketing
• Quick facts: new context, 1h (6x10m)
• Burst panel: fix for visible annotation lanes
• Confirmation box: attach to main window
• Revised tooltips

Firetail v11.1.4, 2023-12-20

• Vectronic: support for ‘Position’ files
• OpenCollar: initial support for json log import (port 2/4 data)
• Argos: fix header recognition

Firetail v11.1.3, 2023-11-28

• Burst Reader: apply burst split settings to TechnoSmart-like formats
• BORIS: add support for quoted descriptions/fields in annotation files
• BORIS: add support for STATE behavioral types

Firetail v11.1.2, 2023-11-13

• Fix UTF-8 filename handling on Windows
• Support for MoveApps-like CSV (dot-separated headers)

Firetail v11.1.1, 2023-10-24

• Logging: increase network connection verbosity

Firetail v11.1.0, 2023-10-19

• License handling: revised mechanism to enable licensed features
• License handling: fix for free license handling
• Export: Multi-animal KML export of Events by Time Bracket (full license)
• Export: Multi-animal CSV export of Events by Time Bracket (full license)
• Activity data: support for activity_x|y|z column types
• FireSOM: predictions on ACT/GYRO features
• Ornitela: support for 2023 style datasets
• Ornitela: support for magnetometer data
• Reporting: enable snapshots of report maps
• QuickFacts: enable snapshots of boxplots
• QuickFacts: Add tied rank handling to Wilcoxon rank sum statistic
• QuickFacts: more compact window
• QuickFacts: colored z-scores
• QuickFacts: boxplot/statistics can now be scaled or hidden
• Replay: adds 10s duration
• Replay: adds ‘1s is 4h’
• Custom formats: adds support for ‘height’ column (height above ellipsoid)
• Custom formats (Auckland): adds support for some generic headers
• Custom formats (Auckland): adds support for ’d/MM/yy h:mm:ss' timestamps
• Fixes a crash regarding CDF plots
• Initial support for ‘Not-a-tag’, experimental tag platform

Firetail v11.0.3, 2023-08-02

• Reporting: paint valid tiles only
• Reporting: fix scatter plot range error
• Fix: access valid data only
• 3D IMU preview: improve lighting
• Reports: enable time constraints
• Reports: Cleanup layout
• Cutoff sensor values numerically
• Improve text format in event panel
• Option to pin quickFacts
• Reporting: fixed out of range error
• Improved memory handling for video exports
• Fixed memory leak in KDE module
• Interval to selection
• Support for Vectronic Activity Data (5min intervals)
• Improve report dialog interface

Firetail v11.0.1, 2023-07-04

• Show warning for unsupported GeoTiff projections
• Initial support for UTM for shape files
• Geoid height conversion (MSL)
• Reports: right-click saving for scatterplots
• Reports: sort scatterplots by axis
• Initial support for ENVDATA elevation
• Use user-specific tile cache
• Screenshot: add timestamp
• Vectronic: support for ‘dd-MMM-yy h:mm:ss A’ timestamps
• Add png extension to exportable report items

Firetail v11.0.0, 2023-06-19

• Crash fixed for QuickFacts
• Map: fix an issue with auto-fit
• Burst Panel: do not reset time when groupings change
• Burst Panel: keep grouping order for a session
• Fix an issue of map track interpolation
• ‘selection to bracket’ feature
• QuickFacts: Real time statistics for one or multiple tags
• Sample projects: adapt to new Movebank Repo structure
• Sample projects: side-by-side layout
• Sample projects: “start exploring”
• Free edition: allow for 5 x 10s video exports per session
• Free edition: allow for 5 screenshots per session
• Group data menu entries
• New svg icon set
• Screenshot viewport
• Improve timestamp readability
• Automatically save FireSOM models
• Video timestamp overlay readability
• Arbitrary viewport aspects can be recorded
• KML layout support
• Improved shape file support
• Reporting module PREVIEW
• Report: field calibration
• Report: activity plots
• Report: map overview
• Report: FireSOM reports
• Report: track-track distances
• Reports: basic statistics
• Reports: time filtering
• Reports: scatter plot matrix
• Demo expiration message
• Increased map paint robustness
• GEOTiff, epsg:3857 projection hint

Firetail v10.0.3, 2023-03-23

• Free Edition, scheduled update

Firetail v10.0.1, 2023-03-01

• Avoid error message if no GPS data is downloaded

Firetail v10.0.0, 2022-12-22

• Free Edition: load partial datasets if license limit is reached
• Fix FireSOM crash on empty ACC data
• Video export: warning if video saving fails
• Video export: use yuv420p chroma for compatibility
• Video export: show viewport dimensions
• Fix crash if no annotations exist for coloring
• Show read-in parameters on file loading
• BORIS overlapping annotations
• initial BORIS csv annotation support
• Avoid crash if data header is unexpected
• Fix consistency check on file read-in
• Fix crash when on empty KDE box
• Improve burst detection
• FireSOM: improve handling of features with zero standard deviation
• FireSOM: record and replay edits for predicted categories
• Logic error for number of groupings exceeding the track index
• Contour map lookup efficiency
• improved KDE GUI
• interactive KDE
• Fixes for Box range estimation (KDE)
• Improved robustness of location interpolation
• Support for overlay of location info for geotiff data
• Crash fixed when accessing map data
• Mouse wheel handling improved on Mac

Firetail v9.5.0, 2022-10-10

• Kernel Density Estimation (beta)
• fixed crash on toggling gyroscope burst data
• improved error handling
• initial Milsar file format support
• faster video rendering
• revised mouse wheel handling for touchpads
• improved stability on unknown filetypes
• logo overlays for gif, bmp
• do not refocus on annotations-to-selection
• improved stability on SOM model loading
• show last loaded bookmark in burst viewport
• burst viewport scaling (Ctrl + ‘+'/'-')
• timestamp readability improved
• improved shape file support (points as scaled diamond)

Firetail v9.0.2, 2022-07-08

• add wildlabs to sample screen
• add e-obs to sample screen
• annotation/export: associate GPS fixes with previous burst (light orange)
• overlay custom logos on the map viewport
• show current zoom level on roll over (map download helper)
• split Movebank downloads to bypass size/time limitations
• improved shape file support
• elevated rights on Win no longer required

Firetail v9.0.0, 2022-07-08

• batch download and update for individuals/tags/deployments
• layout fix for settings menu
• fix crash on trigger context menu
• support for external annotations
• build process: optimize import structure
• build process: fix frequent warnings
• Vector overlay: kml files
• vector overlay: shape files
• stand-alone map rendering
• improved CsvReader Windows
• extend Movebannk Argos file support
• improved Argos format support
• support for Technosmart X manager: exported csv data
• detection of tab separated inputs
• initial support for AWT (african wildlife tracking) formats
• Movebank downloads: enable multiple downloads (multi-select)
• Movebank downloads: disable OK button if no data is selected
• interpret range download queries as UTC
• streamed data access to large movebank files (timeout issue persists)
• improved burst sample parser
• faster data loading
• precise indication of GPS fixes in burst view
• revised color by annotation feature
• fix crash when toggle MAG
• fix copyright year

Firetail v8.0.4, 2022-04-19

• Improved track rendering
• Outlier filter
• Improved ArgosDS support

Firetail v8.0.3, 2022-04-14

• Deactivate joining of selected regions for hierarchical FireSOM
• Large datasets: faster category deletion
• Large datasets: faster track coloring by annotation
• Fix crash on right-click in burst view

Firetail v8.0.0, 2022-04-06

• Revised Manual
• Amend status tips for user interface
• Default FireSOM to 3x3
• Improved tags ids for Movebank projects
• Revised sample project visuals
• Speed up annotation handling
• Delete annotation categories
• Interactive IMU calibration
• Fix crash for acc-only projects
• Read ‘orientation:quaternions-raw’
• Save FireSOM models and apply without re-training
• Initial support for audiologger wav-files (AUDIO bursts)
• Event Viewer
• Support non-empty attributes
• Improved Ornitela/Vectronic burst detection
• Split long bursts setting (Ornitela, Vectronic)
• Filter short bursts setting (Ornitela, Vectronic)
• Auto-detect bursts for Ornitela with varying sample rates
• Set the color of the current map position for a track
• Fix event-based sample count
• Basic support for acceleration-raw-x/y/z
• Download accessory data from Movebank projects
• Process Movebank accessory data (acceleration-x/y/z)
• Generate empty burst spaces to annotate without acceleration data
• Revised Open Street Map server and maps
• Generate selections from existing annotations
• Improved robustness for xml processing
• Fixed crash on sensor toggle

Firetail v7.0.1, 2022-01-10

• Fix auxiliary attribute sorting

Firetail v7.0.0, 2021-12-09

• FireSOM: automated acceleration data segmentation
• Revise e-obs IMU dialog
• Movebank access: time-restricted download (Full license)
• Movebank: data synchronization
• Movebank: improved REST API access
• Movebank: change database ID handling
• Extended download parameter dialog
• IMU calibration: fusion as Euler angles
• IMU calibration ‘clear target’ support
• Quat Preview: show roll, pitch and yaw
• Quat Preview: keep preview open with nearest position
• Event data: show current values
• Bookmarks: improved handling of burst zoom and checked sensors
• Right click to set track colors
• Quick search for local data
• Save dialog parameters for a session
• Watermark viewport
• Hide zoom controls and timestamp when recording
• TileCache: downloaded tiles expire
• Fix for video export on Mac
• Fix result list layout
• Fix crash on malformed external annotation
• Fix crash in Quat-data vizualisation
• CSV export, swap position of longitude and latitude
• Improve SSL error logging
• Sample numbers use 64bit width
• Free edition license key changed
• New build server

Firetail v6.0.1, 2021-09-21

• Fix license check for video recording
• Version 6 documentation
• sample projects: videos updated
• fixed a crash in calibration of e-obs and acc data
• burst attribute removal via menu
• aux burst attributes are now part of annotation exports
• viewport recording, shortcut ‘r’
• toggle tag/individual name via key command ‘l’ (_l_abel)
• toggle coordinates via key command ‘c’ (_c_oordinates)
• read ‘time-to-fix’ attribute
• group and timestamp bookmarking, import/export
• sample projects: reference data included
• sample projects: movebank and movebank repository
• speed up painting of Firetails
• Modis Chlorophyll - cache for interpolated tiles
• wider support for timestamps
• improved 3D MAG visuals

Firetail v5.0.6, 2021-07-01

• improved error handling
• Ornitela burst data

Firetail v5.0.5, 2021-06-17

• LCS announcement URLs updated
• NDVI URL updated

Firetail v5.0.4, 2021-06-17

• Official Free Edition Release

Firetail v5.0.1, 2021-06-17

• fixed blue marble tile sorting
• revised manual
• sensor-type: accessory-measurements
• watermark for tiles
• revised logging

Firetail v5.0.0, 2021-06-10

• free edition w/o time restriction
• IMU bird visual
• improved Rest API download
• support acc events coupled to gps-events
• initial support for Ornitela formats
• initial support for Vectronics formats
• initial support for Technosmart tag formats
• support for multiple columns of same attribute type (manufacturers)
• smoother track following
• fixed crash related to special characters in filenames/paths
• enable Firetails for trajectories
• filter duplicate gps events
• improved thresholding on event data (less than, more than)
• csv export with burst space auxiliaries
• imporved drawing style
• improved text visibility
• heart rate data visualisation
• cleanup smoothing routines
• event space modification
• hide empty auxiliary gps attributes
• first-time attributes set visible
• lane information for aux bursts and sample attributes
• 3D rendering as separate module
• improved burst data handling
• auxiliary features/events extended
• Modis Chloropyll layer
• BMNG base layer
• NDVI base layer
• visible map scale
• show metric distance to closes track point
• trigger update check manually

Firetail v4.0.0, 2021-04-26

• twitter/youtube/newsletter attached
• buy firetail option
• settings: use own Bing keys
• improved File loading mechanisms
• improved ReferenceData handling
• improved annotation mechanism
• file name suggestions for Movebank downloads
• improved burst space annotation
• improved unit conversion
• improved window placement for smaller screens
• full screen mode F11
• newsletter linked
• show values of threshold selection
• improved stability

Firetail v3.6.0, 2021-03-09

• improved file recognition for Movebank downloads
• new time control layout
• fix version comparison of updates
• ECG burst space fix
• e-obs calibration as background job
• support for bundled licenses
• fix for activity plots
• revised visuals for e-obs acc preview
• fixes negative counts when loading large files
• fixes white tiles issue for Bing maps in Linux
• reference data added to main tabs
• fixes map event passing
• load multiple movebank files at once
• unified e-obs and movebank loading mechanism
• sample projects now support acc data for multiple individuals
• quick filter for movebank data selection
• updated versioning for sample projects
• Himalayan Vultures sample project added

Firetail v3.0.0, 2020-12-22

• timestamp editing
• improved time bracketing
• threshold based region selection
• cloud scene download by id
• sample project versioning
• improved sample project handling
• improved zip file handling
• fix: newline characters in movebank titles
• revised logging mechanism
• no windows console window for dev/prod releases
• overall dynamic body acceleration calculation (experimental)
• revised manual & video tutorials
• sample scenes prepared for acc inclusion
• fix mac library issue

Firetail v2.0.0, 2020-10-01

• map download improvements
• fix timestamp handling of eobs timestamps
• timestamp milliseconds optional for EOBS style movebank files
• sample project for IMU data
• improved dynamic brownian movement models
• prepare heart-rate related features
• improvements of magnetic field scaling and calibration
• minor fixes

Firetail v1.0.0, 2020-07-01

• Improved navigation and data drilldown
• Color tracks by attribute
• GeoTiff overlays
• Multi segment selection
• Annotation support for bursts
• Improved csv export for multiple annotation layers
• Improved Layout
• Fixed errors on high zoom levels
• Windows progress bar fixed
• User manual
• New support address
• Experimental: DBBMM heatmamp
• Experimental: threshold selection via Ctrl+Leftclick (e.g. battery level)

Firetail v0.5.0, 2020-04-30

• closing of scenes
• improved license handling
• improved data download
• new acc annotation feature
• time bracketing
• improved EOBS file support
• improved workflow
• stability improved
• video handling
• major speed improvements
• new sample projects view
• improved split window layout
• improved Movebank CSV support
• macOS improvements
• Windows improvements

Firetail v0.3.1, 2018-03-30

• Fix a build error in Windows

Firetail v0.3.0, 2018-03-30

• Initial version for Franz Kümmeth, e-obs GmbH