Introducing V-Track Shiny
Welcome to V-Track Shiny, a new web application for visualising and analysing detection data from the VEMCO suite of receivers and transmitters.
V-Track Shiny is based on the V-Track R package, a collection of tools to assist with the analysis of passive acoustic telemetry data.
Since its release in 2013, V-Track has had over 100 downloads from academic researchers, industry professionals and students from over 20 countries.
This new release now empowers users to analyse and visualise raw acoustic detection data within a web application from any computer with an internet connection.
The analysis for this web application is carried out on
the NeCTAR project compute cluster which hosts the application.
This application is currently in the development stage, and users can only run functions on our sample dataset containing the acoustic detections from 3 estuarine crocodiles tracked via an array of omnidirectional acoustic receivers in the Wenlock River, Queensland, Australia.
The sample dataset contains 11,229 detections in total for the 3 animals.
If you would like to run these analyses on your own datasets, please
visit our website and download the V-Track R package and/or our V-Track Graphical User Interface.
V-Track was developed by Ross Dwyer and Hamish Campbell of
the Eco-Physiology lab at
the School of Biological Sciences,
The University of Queensland and Matt Watts of
the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions,
The University of Queensland.
V-Track Shiny is being developed by Matt Watts of
the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions,
The University of Queensland,
Ross Dwyer of
the Eco-Physiology lab at
the School of Biological Sciences,
The University of Queensland and
Hamish Campbell of
the University of New England.
For further information or enquires about V-Track please contact
Ross Dwyer at
ross.dwyer@uq.edu.au,
Matt Watts at
m.watts@uq.edu.au,
or Hamish Campbell at
hcampbe8@une.edu.au.
Suggested Reading
Campbell, H.A., Watts, M.E., Dwyer, R.G., Franklin, C.E. 2012. V-Track: software for analysing and visualising animal movement from acoustic telemetry detections. Marine and Freshwater Research, 63:815-820.
Publishers website.
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