discussion / Animal Movement  / 1 August 2024

Tools for animating 3D flight paths from GPS and altitude data

Does anybody have advice for software or websites that you can simply upload GPS and altitude data to create a 3D animation of an animal's flight path? I'm looking for something similar to ayvri, which is shutting down. I thought I saw a discussion post about this recently but can't find it now, I'm also curious if this is something you can do on Google Earth Pro or related softwares?  Thanks!




MovingPandas allows you to do interesting visualizations and movement analysis. There are some great documentation that would allow you to turn your GPS data into trajectories and show them on various base maps. 

 

Lars Holst Hansen
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Aarhus University
Biologist and Research Technician working with ecosystem monitoring and research at Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland
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Hi Maggie!

I have used Google Earth Pro for quick and dirty animation of movements of muskoxen.

I prepared .gpx file with the online and free service https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

based on .csv files of the track logs and simply "dumped" these in Google Earth Pro.

I then simply did screen recordings of the animated playback playing a bit with the time scale to adjust speed.

I am not sure if it would work as good for "3D flight tracks" though. 

Cheers,

Lars

 

Cheers,

Lars