conDisplacement {wildlifeDI}

Calculate net displacement from contacts

Description

Calculate the net-displacement (distance) of fixes before and after a contact phase from the nearest contact pahse in time.

Usage

conDisplacement(traj, def = "all")

Arguments

traj

an object of the class move2 which should be output from the function conPhase.

def

how to define the point-of-contact. The default is to define it as all fixes in a phase type = 'all', alternatively contacts can be defined as a single point along the phase defined as one of: 'first','last','minDist','minTime', which corresponds to the first fix int he contact phase, the last fix in the contact phase, the fix with the minimum time difference and the fix with the closest contact distance.

Details

This function is used to compute the net displacement away from contacts by an animal before and after a contact phase. Net displacement represents an important variable related to the movement of the individual.

Value

An move2 object with a new 'contact_displacement' column indicating the straight-line distance to the nearest (in time) contact phase (defined using parameter def). If there are no contacts associated with an individual the contact displacement is NA.

References

Long, JA, Webb, SL, Harju, SM, Gee, KL (2022) Analyzing Contacts and Behavior from High Frequency Tracking Data Using the wildlifeDI R Package. Geographical Analysis. 54, 648–663.

See Also

conProcess, conPhase, conTimelag

Examples

## Not run: 
data(does)
doecons <- conProcess(does,tc=15*60,dc=50)
doephas <- conPhase(doecons,pc=60*60)
disp_f <- conDisplacement(doephas,def='first')
disp_l <- conDisplacement(doephas,def='last')

## End(Not run)