[NBI] MagGeo-Linking wildlife GPS trajectories with geomagnetic data from satellite sources

[mfbenitezp]

What is the notebook about?

The idea of this notebook is to promote the use of MagGeo, a data fusion tool we developed at the University of St Andrews with the support of the British Geology Survey - BGS. The tool helps ecologists or animal movement researchers to link the earth's magnetic field data from satellite sources to GPS trajectories. Inspired by the Environmental Data Automated Track Annotation System (Env-DATA) Service a tool from Movebank and help researchers to get a better understanding of the geomagnetic variations across any GPS trajectories.

Despite there are several approaches in this regard, and in the last 5 to 10 years there are a lot of studies using controlled geomagnetic fields with particular species, what can be experienced in the wild might be completely different, in particular, because the earth's magnetic field is a highly dynamic force with sort spatio-temporal variations that may vary from day to hours. Therefore, despite years of study in this field, we still have little knowledge on how the wildlife can use or be affected by the geomagnetic field in their migration patterns, especially long-distance migrants. We can build in here a notebook describing why linking geomagnetic components is important to the study of wildlife migrations, describing what has been done at the moment, how our data fusion tool works and plotting some maps to display the results.

The tool is already public and can be found in: MagGeo

Data Science Component

• Sensor visualisation
• Preprocessing
• Modelling
• Post-processing
• Other:

Checklist:

• Input data, pipeline and/or model are public with license/citation
• The proposed notebook reuses existing codebase
• The proposed notebook uses open-source packages
• The proposed notebook is associated to existing publication(s)

Additional information

[acocac]

@mfbenitezp thanks for logging the notebook idea! MagGeo looks a very powerful open-source tool for ecology research 🐦 . I would suggest to build upon the existing notebooks of MagGeo and contribute with a light version for the EnvDS book under the topic of wildlife, preprocessing.

The next steps are described in the preparation section here.

My suggestion is to create a new folder Wildlife, then a subfolder preprocessing. Then copy the preprocessing template located inside the path book/community/templates to the preprocessing subfolder. Rename the copied file and start editing the heading with details of the notebook. You don't need to have a final version to open a pull-request, you can submit it at early stage with the heading content only. When you open a PR, you'll need to fill a form in which you can indicate is Work in Progress.
After opening the PR, feel free to start modifying the notebook and pushing changes until you reach the first draft version for reviewing.

[acocac]

@mfbenitezp I'm wondered if you're still keen to contribute with the notebook idea. We've released a new infrastructure which is flexible to keep the python environment to showcase MagGeo.

[mfbenitezp]

Thanks! @acocac I will take a look at the new infrastructure and then integrate notebook where MagGeo can be showcase.

[acocac]

@mfbenitezp cool - please feel free to post here suggestions or questions when you start integrating the MagGeo notebook. Looking forward to sharing it among the EnvDS book community.

[acocac]

👋 @mfbenitezp I'm wondered if do you still consider to publishing the notebook idea described above?

[acocac]

@mfbenitezp, may I ask if you're still considering to submit the notebook to EDS book, if not, may I close the issue?