QGIS provides a processing environment that can be used to call native and third party algorithms, making your spatial analysis tasks more productive and easy to accomplish.

AniMove plugin implements, as a processing submodule, kernel analyses with the following algs:

• href: the reference bandwidth is used in the estimation.
• LSCV (The Least Square Cross Validation): the LSCV bandwidth is used in the estimation.
• Scott's Rule of Thumb: the Scott's rule of thumb is used for bandwidth estimation.
• Silverman's Rule of Thumb: the Silverman's rule of thumb is used for bandwidth estimation.
• kernel with adjusted h

Utilization distribution and contour lines are produced, and area of the contour polygons are calculated.

Additionally, restricted Minimum Convex Polygons (MCP) are implemented, as:

• MCP calculation of the smallest convex polygon enclosing all the relocations of the animal, excluding an user-selected percentage of locations furthest from a centre.

NOTE: some of the bandwidth methods are only available with scipy 0.11 (custom bandwidth value) and statsmodels 0.5 (LSCV, maximum-likelihood cross-validation).

NOTE: at least scipy 0.10 and the gdal_contour command must be installed in order to have the kernel density algorithm available.

Part of the AniMove project supported by Faunalia.

The plugin was developed by:

• Jorge Arévalo (geomati.co)
• Francesco Boccacci
• Víctor González (geomati.co)

and financially supported by:

• Marco Zaccaroni - Department of Biology, University of Firenze
• António Mira
• Dimitris Poursanidis
• Giovanni Manghi
• Stefano Anile
• Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford
• Julia Hazel