I have started a collaboration with Gil Bohrer who is affiliated with Movebank, which is a online database that allows researchers to manage, share, analyze, and archive their tracking data. In addition, the Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) links tracking and environmental data. Our goal is to examine whether we can describe and explain pastoral mobility in the Far North Region of Cameroon using remote-sensing environmental data. Of course, we know that pastoralists are in search of forage and water, but this has not helped us to explain the considerable variation in mobiliy patterns in our database. 

Gil Bohrer and colleagues recently published a paper in which they explain the environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system that links animal tracks with environmental data. In their paper they discuss the example of Albatrosses moving between the Galapagos Islands and the Peruvian coastal areas.