[Babase] GPS Notes for Babase/General Use
Lacey Maryott
lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Tue Sep 8 16:45:08 EDT 2009
Susan said that she spoke with them team while she was there, but
nothing was ever really solidified in terms of what they are doing or
how it should be standardized.
Niki Learn wrote:
> I thought from the big discussion in June that field personnel were supposed
> to include an S (for subgroups) in the psion waypoint name and then write
> out a normal subgroups note on paper as they normally would... Is that not
> what is happening?
>
> By the way, in addition to the data Catherine and I are compiling on
> subgroups, I just finished putting together a table showing all sightings of
> the Ositeti subgroups in 2009. It is difficult to tell who is in what group
> at any given time because, though 17 baboons have been sighted in the group
> at one point or another this year (Jill and 16 males, four with collars),
> the team typically only lists about 1-3 individuals seen in the group (if
> any). And there has only been one formal census of one of the subgroups all
> year. I was hoping to at least sort out which group Lawyer (with the GPS
> collar) is in but he is often listed alone or with a subset of other males.
> Other times he is seen with Jill and other times with Latin (and supposedly
> Latin is in a different subgroup from Jill). So maybe he is bouncing around
> a lot but it would be helpful to know which subgroup he is in at any given
> time so we know which is being tracked on GPS. The groups were more
> consistently referred to as either Jill's or Latin's in the July data (or at
> least the big and small group, the small being Latin's), but not always.
>
> Niki
>
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>
> Just a note about GPS data
>
> It is starting to be the case that the GPS files coming back from the
> field are containing extensive notes about subgrouping, etc.
> It is becoming clear to both Susan and myself that a good system for
> 'notes' and documenting this needs to be developed.
>
> In addition, we will also need to be sure to include in the babase
> design for GPS data (whenever that happens) that we will need to have a
> 'notes' capability of some sort to include these notes about which
> subgroups the observers are with, etc.
>
> Just something we should be keeping in mind
> Lacey
>
>
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Lacey Maryott
Alberts Lab
Department of Biology
Duke University
ph: 919-660-7306
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Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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