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<p>Andy,</p>
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<p>My name is Thomas Janke<a></a>. I am a graduate student at Sul<a></a> Ross State University in west Texas working for the Borderlands Research Institute. Over the past 3 years, I have been monitoring the movements and survival of reintroduced desert bighorn
sheep to part of their historic range. Now comes time for the analysis and writing.
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<p>After diving into past research and methodology, I knew I wanted to do more than just create and compare MCPs<a></a> or KDEs<a></a> to begin describing my research. Which brings me to you and your T_LoCoH<a></a> software. I believe it is great y'all were
able to create a software package that incorporates time into the analysis. </p>
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<p>I am new to this software, but am willing to do what it takes to become more familiarized with it and be able to incorporate it into my data analysis. I have read your dissertation, your Home Range Plus publication, and the overview of the T_LoCoH<a></a>
program, along with following through with the example sets. Now its time for me to start analyzing my data.
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<p>We conducted 2 consecutive releases (2010 & 2011) for this restoration effort. I currently have data from 54 GPS collars, with data collection ranging from <1wk<a></a> to >2yrs<a></a>. Over the course of the study, we used 3 different types of collars (all
of which have differing data formats). The 2010 released collars collected data in Lat/Long and were programmed to obtain a location every 3 hours. The 2011 released collars collected data in UTMs<a></a> and were programmed to collect a location every 5 hours.
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<p>I would ultimately like to compare the movements and UDs<a></a> by release year, sex, and time of year (ecological seasons). I would also like to use the GPS data to see if there are any preferred habitats (e.g. slope, aspect, terrain ruggedness, etc.) for
the previously mentioned comparisons<a></a>. It would also be great to be able to delineate 'travel corridor(s)' from the GPS data (esp. the sheep that were documented crossing international borders).</p>
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<p>How do I need to go about entering and analyzing all of my data? Is there a way to compute an 's', and an 'a or k' value that can be used on all of the sheep, or will I have to determine individual values? If I am able to combine the data sets, how to I
need to go about the different coordinate systems? How do I deal with differing data set sizes (e.g. 1 month compared to 2 years) or collars that had different acquisition rates?
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<p>Any help you're able to give would be most appreciated.</p>
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<p>Thanks and have a good one,</p>
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<p>Thomas</p>
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