ORTEGA

ORTEGA analyzes potential interactions between moving entities based on their movement data, contributing to the understanding of social relationships in ecological systems.

Key Features:

• Time-Geographic Interaction Detection: Identifies potential interactions including encounters, concurrent interactions, and delayed interactions from movement data of two or more entities using a time-geographic-based approach.
• Interaction Event Attribution: Computes attributes of potential interaction events including start time, end time, interaction duration, and difference in movement parameters such as speed and moving direction.
• Context-Aware Analysis: Incorporates contextual information to inform and contextualize identified potential interaction events.

Scientific Applications:

• Animal Movement Ecology: Traces dynamic interaction patterns in animal movement data to understand social relationships among individuals and their dynamics in ecological systems.
• Space-Time Interaction Pattern Quantification: Quantifies space-time interaction patterns among animals using newly emerged time-geographic approaches.

Methodology:

ORTEGA is developed as an Object-oRiented TimE-Geographic Analytical tool based on time-geographic approaches for quantifying space-time interaction patterns.