LifeWatch are currently tracking gulls as well as march harriers using GPS units as well as CartoDB powered Google Maps. thirty birds were tracked over the jump as well as summer.
Unfortunately the alive real-time map is no longer of much utilization every bit the birds accept flown southward for the wintertime as well as are out of arrive at of the project's antennas. However LifeWatch has created some interesting maps using the information tracks from the jump as well as summer.
These include an intensity map of Eric, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, breeding inwards the colony of Zeebrugge. The map shows Eric's movements over 2 months, revealing Eric's most visited locations, including his frequent day-trips to Bruges. Using the same information LifeWatch besides created a map showing his paths per day. In this map Eric's daily flying paths are colored past times twenty-four hr menses to exhibit how his flying blueprint changed over the 2 months.
Vizzuality's Torque library was besides used to practise a fascinating animated map showing all Eric's movements over the 2 months inwards simply 150 seconds.
The Bear Tracker from Polar Bear International is tracking the movements of polar bears inwards Hudson Bay.
The Google Map shows electrical flow as well as past times sea H2O ice levels on Hudson Bay, as well as besides the stone oil locations of polar bears. Users tin arrive at the sack click on the private polar acquit markers to thought the bear's runway as well as besides utilization a fourth dimension slider command to run across the locations of the bears over time.
Ocearch's Global Shark Tracker has extended its shark tracking app to runway sharks off the E coast of North America.
The Global Shark Tracker allows anyone to discover the navigational blueprint of 47 tracked sharks. The sharks accept been tagged alongside satellite tracking technology for the utilization of shark conservation as well as their movements tin arrive at the sack last followed on this Google Maps based tracker. The Global Shark Tracker is directly tracking 35 sharks off the coast of South Africa as well as 12 off the E coast of America.
The tracker includes a publish of useful filters which allows the user to search for private sharks past times cite or to thought the trails of simply manly someone or woman someone sharks or of mature or young sharks.
The Nova Southeastern University Oceangraphic Research Center are besides using Google Maps to runway a publish of sharks off the E coast, the Gulf of United Mexican U.S.A. as well as elsewhere around the world.
The Guy Harvey Research Institute Tracker allows the user to direct the sharks to thought on the map past times place or past times private shark name.
