Call it a bird’s eye view of migration. Scientists are taking
a fresh look at animal movement with a big data approach that combines GPS
tracking data with satellite weather and terrain information.
The new Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation
(Env-DATA) system, featured in the journal Movement Ecology, can handle
millions of data points and serve a hundred scientists simultaneously, said
co-founder Dr. Roland Kays, a zoologist with North Carolina State University
and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.