ACT Meeting 2023-01: Advanced Telemetry Curriculum

This collection of lessons will introduce the R programming language, popular in the field of biologging.

This is an advanced workshop, and the basics of the R progamming language will not be covered.

This session offers a brief overview of the glatos R package for performing detection filtering, various calculations and plotting. The data is then transformed for ingestion into the powerful acoustic telemetry package actel. We then explore multiple ways to animate fish tracks, exploring gganimate and pathroutr, and finally we introduce some quality control functions from remora.

If you have questions about this curriculum, please reach out to otndc@dal.ca

Schedule

	Setup	Download files required for the lesson
00:00	1. Background	What is the Ocean Tracking Network? How does your local telemetry network interact with OTN? What methods of data analysis will be covered?
00:05	2. Introduction to glatos Data Processing Package	How do I load my data into glatos? How do I filter out false detections? How can I consolidate my detections into detection events? How do I summarize my data?
00:35	3. More Features of glatos	What other features does glatos offer?
00:50	4. Basic Visualization and Plotting	How can I use glatos to plot my data? What kinds of plots can I make with my data?
01:20	5. Introduction to actel	What does the actel package do? When should I consider using Actel to analyze my acoustic telemetry data?
02:05	6. Preparing ACT Data for actel	How do I take my ACT detection extracts and metadata and format them for use in actel?
02:35	7. Basic Animation	How do I set up my data extract for animation? How do I animate my animal movements?
02:55	8. Animation with pathroutr	How can I create animal movement plots that avoid land?
03:15	9. Quality Control Checks with Remora	How do I use Remora to quality check my data?
03:30	10. Other OTN Telemetry Curriculums	How can I expand my learning?
03:30	Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.