Firetail

movement analysis and visualization for wild animal research

All your data

Firetail loads all your tag’s sensor data and provides you with a complete picture of animal behaviour.

Interactive Exploration

Interpret large-scale data sets in real time. Rapidly identify crucial regions and focus on what is actually important.

Rapid Annotation

Predict and annotate behavior from acceleration data with ease using Firetail’s built-in AI FireSOM.

User Feedback

Firetail is fantastic

Lars Holst HansenInstitut for Bioscience - Arktisk økosystemøkologi – Institut for Ecoscience

[…] a whole new level of behavioral research […] The scientist gets up close to the studied animal again.

Dr. Jörg Melzheimerspatial ecologist and project coordinator of the Cheetah Research Project – IZW - Cheetah Research

I’m impressed at how fast Firetail is, well done!

Simon Chamaillé-JammesCNRS, France – Simon Chamaillé-Jammes on Research Gate

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Opportunities

Student fellowships available – register until 28th Feb!

News

Firetail - Tutorial Series 23.2 - Working with acceleration annotation

7. February 2023

Glad to announce the 2nd tutorial on Firetail 10 - 'working…

Firetail 10 tutorial available: density estimations on time ranges

26. January 2023

Our first tutorial on Firetail 10 is now available! Density…

Introducing Firetail Fellowships

19. January 2023

We're pleased to announce the launch of our Firetail Fellowship…

Resources

TUTORIALS

see your data in a new light with our video tutorials

Wildlabs.net

connect with other users in the biologging community at wildlabs.net

CITATION

If you have found value in our work, please cite us as follows. Thank you!

M. Berger, T. Petri, M. Gentile, and F. Schäuffelhut, “Firetail – a fast and versatile software for the visualization and analysis of tagged animal data”, Schäuffelhut Berger GmbH, Version 10, Dec. 2022. [Online]. Available from: https://www.firetail.de

Basics, Update 2022

An introduction to Firetail concepts

Annotations - Feb 2023

workflows for acceleration annotation and annotation transfer across individuals/tags

Interactive KDE - Jan 2023

Interactive Kernel Density Estimations mit Firetail

Acceleration Data

An introduction to acceleration data handling in Firetail

Acceleration Segmentation

A detailed tutorial on how-to segment acceleration data using the FireSOM algorithm

Advanced Annotation

A combined lecture and live demo on how to build hierarchical models using category subdivision in Firetail 8

Large Scale Data

An introduction to handling of extremely large data sets in Firetail using cloud scene technology

Cat hunting patterns BR

A feature on German televsion on house cat tracking and Firetail applications

e-obs logger

A tutorial on e-obs logger extraction and how to open the data in Firetail

Cooperations

Movebank is an initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior. Access your data immediately after uploading. Firetail integrates the Movebank API and provides visualization, analysis, and annotation for datasets and feeds. With incremental updating, you never load more data than necessary.

E-obs transmitters collect high-resolution GPS and acceleration data. The measurements are characterized by an ever-growing number of additional sensors, including temperature, altitude, spatial orientation (IMU), and speed — an unprecedented level of detail and contextual knowledge for research, animal welfare, and project planning. Firetail natively supports the latest e-obs features. A perfect interplay!

Technosmart devices are designed to provide state-of-the art bio-logging data. High definition sensors provide many challenges, but even more opportunities. We’re glad to work with Technosmart towards a common goal: the best solution for our customers.