The Comprehensive Guide to Tracking

The Comprehensive Guide to Tracking
Author: Cleve Cheney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781571574275

Tracking is an art form as well as a skill. But it is an art that can be taught and a skill that can be acquired. Cleve Cheney, a master at tracking both animals and humans, defines tracking as "learning to use all your senses to monitor your surroundings and to make logical and realistic deductions from what you have observed." He has brought together a massive amount of information on the how, when, and where of tracking.

A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America

A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America
Author: James C. Halfpenny
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1986
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780933472983

Guide to identifying mammals in North America through tracking, and using this information in understanding their behavior.

Eye Tracking

Eye Tracking
Author: Kenneth Holmqvist
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0191625426

We make 3-5 eye movements per second, and these movements are crucial in helping us deal with the vast amounts of information we encounter in our everyday lives. In recent years, thanks to the development of eye tracking technology, there has been a growing interest in monitoring and measuring these movements, with a view to understanding how we attend to and process the visual information we encounter Eye tracking as a research tool is now more accessible than ever, and is growing in popularity amongst researchers from a whole host of different disciplines. Usability analysts, sports scientists, cognitive psychologists, reading researchers, psycholinguists, neurophysiologists, electrical engineers, and others, all have a vested interest in eye tracking for different reasons. The ability to record eye-movements has helped advance our science and led to technological innovations. However, the growth of eye tracking in recent years has also presented a variety of challenges - in particular the issue of how to design an eye-tracking experiment, and how to analyse the data. This book is a much needed comprehensive handbook of eye tracking methodology. It describes how to evaluate and acquire an eye-tracker, how to plan and design an eye tracking study, and how to record and analyse eye-movement data. Besides technical details and theory, the heart of this book revolves around practicality - how raw data samples are converted into fixations and saccades using event detection algorithms, how the different representations of eye movement data are calculated using AOIs, heat maps and scanpaths, and how all the measures of eye movements relate to these processes. Part I presents the technology and skills needed to perform high-quality research with eye-trackers. Part II covers the predominant methods applied to the data which eye-trackers record. These include the parsing of raw sample data into oculomotor events, and how to calculate other representations of eye movements such as heat maps and transition matrices. Part III gives a comprehensive outline of the measures which can be calculated using the events and representations described in Part II. This is a taxonomy of the measures available to eye-tracking researchers, sorted by type of movement of the eyes and type of analysis. For anyone in the sciences considering conducting research involving eye-tracking, this book will be an essential reference work.

Tracker's Field Guide

Tracker's Field Guide
Author: James Lowery
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493004735

Jim Lowery is among North America's leading tracking experts. In this book he distills his remarkable expertise, gained over decades of intensive research and practical field experience, into a comprehensive field guide to tracking North American mammals. Fully illustrated with hundreds of drawings and high-resolution photographs, The Tracker's Field Guide sets a new standard for tracking books.

Combat Tracking Guide

Combat Tracking Guide
Author: John Hurth
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0811710998

The first book on tracking in a combat situation that includes suggestions for integrating visual tracking operations into existing military doctrine in addition to the boots-on-the-ground detail necessary for soldiers who perform those operations How to visually track an armed individual or group in a combat situation for the purposes of gaining intelligence, locating the enemy, and/or killing them Packed with photographs and carefully crafted diagrams A functional, readable manual for soldiers, trackers, military organizations, affiliates, and enthusiasts around the world

Stokes Guide to Animal Tracking and Behavior

Stokes Guide to Animal Tracking and Behavior
Author: Donald Stokes
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1987-09-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780316817349

With these handy paperback reference guides, illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings, nature watchers know what to look for and how to interpret what they see. Whether carried into the field or consulted at home, these books provide readers with fascinating facts and insights into the behavior of birds and wildlife. With more than 3 million copies of their books sold to date, Donald and Lillian Stokes are increasingly recognized and celebrated as Americas preeminent authorities on nature and birding.

Practical Tracking

Practical Tracking
Author: Mark Elbroch
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-03-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0811741273

Techniques from international tracking experts applicable to any quarry and terrain. How to follow and find elk, deer, bears, cougars, lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos, and cape buffalo.

Animal Tracking Basics

Animal Tracking Basics
Author: Tiffany Morgan
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2007-01-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0811742423

Offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced tracker.

Tracker Manual

Tracker Manual
Author: Alex Van den Heever
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Animal tracks
ISBN: 9781775843351

A practical tracking guide to 160 animals, birds, insects: multiple photos, track drawings and straightforward text help detect and interpret signs and ID the animals.

Pocket Guide Tracks & Tracking in Southern Africa

Pocket Guide Tracks & Tracking in Southern Africa
Author: Louis Liebenberg
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-10-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1775848728

This handy guide provides simple tools to help interpret the tracks and signs of some 105 southern African mammals, reptiles, frogs and birds. Photographs and diagnostic spoor illustrations are given for each animal, along with information on behaviour, habits and habitat, and up-to-date distribution maps show where the animals occur. Special features on insects and scat supplement the text and a detailed introduction offers basic guidelines for learning how to become a tracker. Sales points: Clear illustrations of more than 125 animal tracks. 175 full-colour photographs. Special features on insects and scat. Author expertise well recognised in this field.