Marine Birds' Behaviour Visualization

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Recent advancements in tracking and sensory data acquisition hardware, enabled marine biologists to collect larger and more comprehensive information from marine species coordinates and travel paths. This opens a window into closer study of behaviors such as foraging, migration etc. Besides, environment information, which may be a context for occurrence of certain behaviors, is essential part of behavioral studies. Here, an interactive tool for visualization of marine birds' kinematic sensory data with synchronous integration of marine environment data is presented. This provides the researchers ability to replicate the birds' interaction with their environment. It is developed as a web-based application, accessible simply via web browser which is ideal for research organizations and communities where computing and storage resources are shared. In overall, this tool provides a powerful portable platform for researchers to analyze and visualize the marine birds' behavior based on fusion of environmental and trajectory data.