instantaneous speed and distance

[adrian...@gmail.com]

Hi Chris,

I am trying to estimate daily traveled distance using the code provided in the paper "Scale-insensitive estimation of speed and distance traveled from animal tracking data".

It has been working well until it got to the seventh day, since then it has been running with the status bar reaching 97% and going back to 45% for that day.

I have the instantaneous speed for this dataset, I got this fitting ctmm for the season, is there a way to estimate daily traveled distance from instantaneous speed?

All the best,

Adrian

[Christen Fleming]

Hi Adrian,

If the sampling distribution is heavy tailed, then you might get improvement in convergence by setting robust=TRUE, which will return the median of the sampling distribution rather than the mean.

You get distance traveled by estimating the mean speed and multiplying that by the time period.

Best,

Chris