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• Authors:
  • Julie W. Turner
  • James Hodson
  • Nick Wilson

This repository contains code to animate caribou movement relative to fire hotspots in Northwest Territories (NWT) from the 2023 fire season. Caribou data comes from the Government of Northwest Territories’ woodland caribou data on Movebank. Fire data comes from Natural Resources Canada fire hotspots datasets.

The project folder structure is as follows:

-- caribou_fires_NWT
  |-- data
      |-- raw
          |-- CanadaPoly
          |-- cwfis
          |-- FireShapefiles
      |-- derived
  |-- scripts
  |-- anims

The data folder contains raw data from the source, and the derived data that were prepared for the animations. CanadaPoly contains a polygon of Canadian provinces and territories from Statistics Canada to filter data to NWT. cwfis contains the NRCan fires data. The FireShapefiles data were provided by GNWT.

The scripts folder contains the R code necessary to prepare and animate the data in numerical order. There are two separate scripts that create the animations. One using the basemaps package for the base map and another using ggmap for the base map depending on needs for future use. The basemaps version is the one that created 2023 deliverables. The anims folder is where the animations will be saved.