Lessons Learned from Tool Development for Animal Movement Analysis

Animal tracking has made significant technological progress in the last years with lighter, more capable sensors and better battery us-age. However, analyzing these movement tracks is still challeng-ing for most biologists since it requires extensive computer science knowledge for data preprocessing, geographical mapping and visu-alization to interpret the collected data. While our overall goal is to simplify this process for a wide range of animal trackers, this paper specifically focuses on the lessons that we learned in the process of developing tools for biologists.