repository for manuscript 'Enabling High-Resolution Wildlife Tracking: A novel antenna beam-based approach including per-position error estimations for Automated Radiotelemetry Systems' by Rieger, M. R., Schmitt, J., Machin, P., Musculus, J., Dittrich, R., Gottschalk, T. K., Gottwald, J., Lampe, P., & Höchst, J. containing data and R scripts.
help_functions.R: helper functionsmaster.R: master script running all subscripts in /Rplot_functions.R: helper functions for plottingplots.R: script to produce plots for manuscript, also runningsupplement.Rmdsupplement.Rmd: supplement of manuscript/R: scripts used to check and prepare data before modelling and modelling process (sourced bymaster.R)mergeCali.R: merges position estimates with GPS fixes and station coverModel_PE.R: modelling process (m1, m2, m3.1, m3.2, m3.3 and predictive performance tests)plotError.Rmd: visual output of spatial distribution of position error, e.g., to check for blind spots in your study area
/animal: telemetry data for one Great Tit and one European RobinData_animal_Handheld_maisC.gpkg: handheld dataData_animal_raw_maisC.gpkg: estimated positions using directional antenna beams
/cali: telemetry data from test tracksData_cali_raw_maisC.gpkg: estimated positions from test tracks in maisCData_cali_raw_maisD.gpkg: estimated positions from test tracks in maisD/savedFiles: saved output frommergeCali.RData_cali_density.gpgk: layersdensity_est(station cover based on estimated ARTS positions) anddensity_true(station cover based on true GPS positions)Data_cali_raster.gpkg: layersdensity_raster(summed up station cover as polygon),density_rings(detection probability rings per station, mainly for plotting) andraster_site(distribution of PE across maisC and maisD, summarized in a 50*50 m grid)Data_cali_raw.gpkg: layerunfiltered(prepared data fromData_cali_raw_maisC.gpkgandData_cali_raw_maisD.gpkg)
Isolines_*: isolines of maisC and maisD, needed for plottingStation.gpkg: locations of stations and station characteristicsTesttracks_lines.gpkg: test tracks as linesTesttracks_points.gpkg: test tracks as pointsvg2500_bld_ganz*: outline of German federal states, needed for plotting
data_m*.csv: data used for the respective modelling processdata_test_m3*.csv: data used for testing predictive performance of models m3model_*.RDS: model filesmodel-coefficients_*.csv: model coefficientsmodel-predictions_*.csv: model predictions for specific predictor combinationsmodel-predictions2_m3.csv: model predictions of m3 for raw datamodel-simulations_*.csv: raw simulations (4000 per model coefficient combination)output_*.pdf: visual output (predictive checks and results) per model
/plots: plots generated byplots.R/plots_supplement: plots needed forsupplement.Rmd