Firetail – Analysis of GPS and Acceleration Data
Towards a better understanding of wild animals

Analysis

Measure

Modern GPS tags like e-obs capture movement patterns, acceleration, orientation and numerous envionmental variables. Firetail supports virtually all available sensor data to provide a complete picture of animal behaviour.

Visualise

Firetail can cope with current studies that encompass 500K+ GPS fixes and 10+ million acceleration samples interactively. Naturally, Firetail works great on small datasets as well. Field work has carried you away from civilisation? Firetail is capable to work offline. All trajectories and sensor data are fully synchronized, so all factors that matter may be taken into account.

Discover

Join observed individuals in Firetail to annotate behaviour, recognize migration patterns and interpret interaction. Restrict to custom periods of time and regions of interest. Observe your high-resolution data on arbitrary granularity.

Experts

For me, Firetail represents a whole new level of behavioral research in biology. Digitalization and recent developments in tracking technology allowed for an enormous growth in sample size and available data, yet small-grained pieces of information are lost by the increasing distance between researcher and study animal.

Using Firetail, this gap is bridged. The scientist gets up close to the studied animal again.

Dr. Jörg Melzheimer Cheetah Research Project, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

Data

Movebank is an initiative by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Access your data immediately after the upload. Firetail provides you with an interface to Movebank and enables the immediate analysis of your public and private data sets. Load – explore – discover.

e-obs homepage

E-obs devices reliably capture high-resolution GPS and acceleration data. The measurements are enriched with an ever growing set of additional sensors for temperature, height, orientation (IMU) and speed — empowering your research with unprecedented detail and context. Firetail supports state-of-the-art e-obs features natively. The perfect match!

Videos

Basics

Acceleration Data

Features Feb 2021

Cat hunting patterns BR

Resources

SERVICES

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TAG MANUFACTURERS

We offer special promotional Firetail bundles to ship with your hardware. Get in touch and let your customers benefit from Firetail’s extensive data analysis capabilities!

TRIAL

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LICENSING

The Firetail License Package

Order your personal license and unlock the full power of Firetail.

Receive all upgrades and customer support for 12 months.

No expiration: continue using the latest version covered by your 12 months license lifetime.

In case you are working with a bundled manufacturer’s trial (like e-obs) you may qualify for a 20% discount.

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