foieGras (version 0.4.0)

prefilter: Prepare Argos data for fitting state-space model

Description

prefilter (1) determines Argos data type (LS or KF); (2) converts dates to POSIXt & identifies observations with duplicate dates; (3) orders observations in time; (4) removes duplicate observations; (5) removes observations occurring within 60 s of one another (keeps first); (6) shifts longitudes that straddle -180,180 to 0,360 and vice-versa; (7) projects lonlat coords to mercator x,y coords (in km); (8) adds location error multiplication factors based on Argos location class (for type LS); (9) uses a argosfilter::sdafilter to identify potential outlier locations (by distance only) to be ignored when fitting the ctrw model

Usage

prefilter(data, vmax = 50, ang = -1, distlim = c(2500, 5000),
  spdf = TRUE, min.dt = 60, emf = NULL)

Arguments

data

input data - must have 5 (LS), or 8 (KF) columns (see details)

vmax

max travel rate (m/s) - see ?argosfilter::sdafilter for details

ang

angles of outlier location "spikes" - see ?argosfilter::sdafilter for details

distlim

lengths of outlier location "spikes" - see ?argosfilter::sdafilter for details

spdf

turn speed filter on/off (logical; default is TRUE)

min.dt

minimum allowable time difference between observations; dt < min.dt will be ignored by the SSM

emf

optionally supplied data.frame of error multiplication factors for Argos location quality classes. see Details

Value

an sf object with all observations passed from data and the following appended columns

keep

logical indicating whether observation should be ignored by sfilter (FALSE)

obs.type

flag indicating whether KF or LS measurement model applies

emf_x

error multiplication factors for x direction

emf_y

error multiplication factors for y direction

geometry

sf POINT object giving x,y coordinates in km

Details

called by fit_ssm.

User-specified Error Multiplication Factors (emf). emf's must be provided as a data.frame with the following columns:

emf.x emf values for the x direction

emf.y emf values for y direction

lc location class designations

The location class designations can be the standard Argos lc values: 3, 2, 1, 0, A, B, Z or other values. The number of classes specified is flexible though may not be amenable to a large number of classes. Whatever class designations are chosen must also appear in the input data lc column. A GPS location class ("G") is provided by default and assumes that GPS locations are 10 x more precise than Argos lc 3 locations.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(ellie)
pf <- prefilter(ellie, vmax=4, ang=c(15,25), min.dt=120)
pf

# }