Icehack: exploring polar data
Using BAS data

Carles Pina and HoracioCambridge, 14th March 2016

Usually the seals travel from 20 Km to 148 Km in about two weeks...There are some seals travelling a lot like: ATP07_03_020213.csvDoing 1444 Km!And 686 Km in 7 minutes!Averaging 98 Km/hor 60 miles per hour

(obviously it was an error in the data!)

Some curiosities from the dataset

Show map of seal traveling

https://carlespina.cartodb.com/viz/5c4316ae-ea1a-11e5-8818-0ea31932ec1d/public_map

Questions

How do the GPS errors affect the data? (e.g. should we ignore small movements? We ignored too long movements)

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Appendix

Image: http://wannasmile.com/tag/seal/