WG3: Visualizing Spatio-temporal Patterns of Animal Movement

Working group leader: Hans van Gasteren

WG3 will use data produced by the weather radar network to quantify spatio-temporal patterns of aerial animal movements at different scales in space and time.

The following activities will be the focus of WG3:

• Evaluation of infrastructure for efficient storage and retrieval of biological information extracted from weather radars in close cooperation with OPERA.
• Fostering collaboration between computational scientists and biologists to design infrastructure for efficient visualization of biological information extracted from weather radars and the most relevant environmental factors.
• Mapping animal movement at large scales (across multiple radars).
• Evaluation of statistical modelling approaches to quantify the influence of atmospheric dynamics on animal movement (local to continental).
• Investigating the degree of spatio-temporal correlation between radar sites for different movement patterns and taxa and the causal factors underlying the large-scale patterns.