2.5.1.6. cpforager.GPS_Collection.to_SeabirdTracking

GPS_Collection.to_SeabirdTracking(metadata)

Produce the dataframe formatted for Seabird Tracking Database from GPS_collection.

Parameters:

  • self (cpforager.GPS_Collection) – a GPS_Collection object

  • metadata (pandas.DataFrame.) – the dataframe with the metadata needed for Seabird Tracking Database.

Returns:

the dataframe at the Seabird Tracking Database format.

Return type:

pandas.DataFrame

The resulting dataframe contains all the position recordings found in the GPS_Collection and its associated metadata (thus duplicated). The correspondance between data and metadata is done using the bird_id column of the metadata and the id field of each GPS in the GPS_Collection. Since equinox and argos_quality are not relevant for GPS but are for Seabird Tracking, they are set to “NA”. See STDB for more details about the format.

Note

The required fields in the metadata dataframe are bird_id,``sex``,``age``,``breed_stage``, equinox and argos_quality. Possible values for these fields are constrained by Seabird Tracking Database.