Dear Eduardo,
I am new to using adehabitatHR. I have a very simple question that
neither the vignette of adehabitatHR nor Google could answer, so may
you can help. I want to estimate home ranges using the function mcp.
My data consists of individual ids and their locations in a Lat + Long
format in a .csv file, as follows:
ID Lat Long
X 45.85711 170.51833
...
The question is: Do I have to convert my Lat/Long coordinates to
another metric to estimate home ranges using mcp? If so, how do I proceed?
Depending on your needs, you may have to convert your coordinates to
another system or not. If you just need to calculate the coordinates of
the vertices of the MCP (e.g. for habitat analyses, i.e. just to
identify the places of your study area located in the home range of an
animal), you do not have to convert your coordinates. On the other hand,
if you plan to use the home-range size calculated by this function, you
have to (see the arguments unin and unout on the help page of the
function mcp: the units of the coordinates should be in meters or
kilometers; not decimal degrees).
To change the projection system, you can have a look at the package
proj4 in R or to try to do this with a GIS.
HTH,
Clément Calenge
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Clément CALENGE
Cellule d'appui à l'analyse de données
Direction des Etudes et de la Recherche
Office national de la chasse et de la faune sauvage
Saint Benoist - 78610 Auffargis
tel. (33) 01.30.46.54.14
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