ColDownload: Internet Collar Download

In mhayes1/UPart: Ungulate Parturition Modeling and Predicting

Description

This function downloads Iridium GPS data from ATS servers. Internet connection must be available and ATS servers online. User must have valid ATS Iridium account. In addition mortality/battery warnings and transmissions are also downloaded and returned.

Usage

ColDownload(username = "", password = "", dirdown = "",
  cType = "ATS/IRID")

Arguments

username	Username for Iridium Account (not stored) as character vector
password	Password for Iridium Account (not stored) as character vector
dirdown	Directory to download the file to
cType	Type of collar/system (currently only supports 'ATS/IRID' and 'ATS/GSTAR')

Value

Resulting object is a list of Two elements. First element is a SpatialPointsDataFrame of all the GPS data on the account, the second is a dataframe of all transmissions received by the satellite

Spatial Data Column Description:

CollarSerialNumber	ATS Designated Collar Serial Number
TelemDate	POSIX Field of collare fixes in the USER'S timezone. NOTE: may need to alter timezone
HDOP	Horizontal Dilution of Precision
NumSats	Number of satellites used for GPS Fix
2D/3D	Whether fix is a 2d or 3d fix. Values are either 2 or 3

Examples

ColDownload(username='yourusername',password='yourpassword',dirdown='/home/mhayes1/Desktop/Testing/',cType='ATS/IRID')

mhayes1/UPart documentation built on May 10, 2019, 8:28 a.m.