camtrapsMultiSeason {camtrapR}

Sample multi-season camera trap station information

Description

Example multi-season camera trap station information table

Usage

data(camtrapsMultiSeason)

Format

A data frame with 7 rows and 8 variables

Details

This is a general example of how information about camera trap stations from multiple seasons are arranged in camtrapR. It contains setup and retrieval dates, coordinates and a season identifier. If more than 1 camera was set up at a station (e.g. 2 cameras facing each other), a camera ID column must be added, with camera-specific information instead of station-specific information. If cameras malfunctioned repeatedly, additional pairs of problem columns can be added, e.g. "Problem2_from" and "Problem2_to" etc..

Note that season 2010 has an additional station (StationD). This is to simulate a situation where a station was not set up during an entire season.

The variables are as follows:

Station	Camera trap station ID
utm_y	y coordinate of station (northing)
utm_x	x coordinate of station (easting)
Setup_date	camera trap setup date
Retrieval_date	camera trap retrieval date
Problem1_from	first day of camera malfunction
Problem1_to	last day of camera malfunction
session	Identified for trapping session / season

Note

The coordinates can be in the units of any coordinate system. UTM was chosen as an example, but it could be latlong or anything else, too. capthist objects (as created by spatialDetectionHistory for spatial capture-recapture analyses) expect the unit to be meters. capthist alse require session information as integer numbers starting with 1.

"Season" and "session" are used synonymously here. secr nomenclature is "session", in unmarked it is "season".

Examples

# data were created with the following code:
data(camtraps)

camtraps_season2 <- camtraps

# change 2009 to 2010
camtraps_season2[, "Setup_date"] <- gsub("2009", "2010", camtraps_season2[,
    "Setup_date"])
camtraps_season2[, "Retrieval_date"] <- gsub("2009", "2010", camtraps_season2[,
    "Retrieval_date"])
camtraps_season2[, "Problem1_from"] <- gsub("2009", "2010", camtraps_season2[,
    "Problem1_from"])
camtraps_season2[, "Problem1_to"] <- gsub("2009", "2010", camtraps_season2[,
    "Problem1_to"])

# add an extra station with different dates in session 2010
camtraps_season2 <- rbind(camtraps_season2, NA)
camtraps_season2$Station[4] <- "StationD"
camtraps_season2$utm_y[4] <- 607050
camtraps_season2$utm_x[4] <- 525000
camtraps_season2$Setup_date[4] <- "04/04/2010"
camtraps_season2$Retrieval_date[4] <- "17/06/2010"
camtraps_season2$Problem1_from[4] <- "20/05/2010"
camtraps_season2$Problem1_to[4] <- "30/05/2010"

# add season column
camtraps$session <- 2009
camtraps_season2$session <- 2010

# combine the tables for 2 seasons
camtrapsMultiSeason <- rbind(camtraps, camtraps_season2)