Function to filter temporal duplicates in tracking data by quality index.
dupfilter_qi(sdata = sdata, step.time = 0)
A data frame containing columns with the following headers: "id", "DateTime", "qi".
The function filters the input data by the unique "id".
"DateTime" is date & time in class POSIXct
.
"qi" is the numerical quality index associated with each location fix where a greater number indicates a higher accuracy
(e.g. the number of GPS satellites involved in estimation).
Consecutive locations less than or equal to step.time apart are considered temporal duplicates. Default is 0 hours.
The input data frame is returned with temporal duplicates removed by the quality index.
This function is a partial component of dupfilter
, although works as a stand-alone function.
It looks for temporal duplicates and retains a fix with the highest quality index.
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dupfilter
, dupfilter_exact
, dupfilter_time
, dupfilter_space
, track_param