STE General Workflow

Technical Guide

A deeper look at how the STE General Workflow is built: the data ingestion pipeline, the methodology behind each map output, and how the final report and dashboard are assembled.

Download the full Technical Guide (PDF) v1.1

Version 1.1 updates the guide for the migration to the ecoscope-platform task/compiler runtime, the restructured Preset / Calendar / Custom previous-period selector, the shared user-configurable raster step length, corrected basemap opacities, and a units fix on the trajectory segment filter table.

Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Dependencies & Prerequisites
    1. EarthRanger Connection
    2. Google Earth Engine Connection
    3. Subject Group
    4. Map Overlay & landDx Geodatabase
    5. Base Map Tile Layers
  3. Data Ingestion Pipeline
    1. Observations → Relocations
    2. Day / Night Annotation
    3. Trajectory Segment Filter
    4. Relocations → Trajectories
    5. NDVI Seasonal Window Detection
    6. Season Labelling
    7. Previous Period
    8. Speed Classification
  4. Map Outputs — Methodology
    1. Movement Tracks Map
    2. Subject Tracks Map
    3. Elephant Sightings / Collaring Events Map
    4. Overall Home Range Map (ETD)
    5. Filtered 99th Percentile Home Range Map
    6. Protected and Unprotected Areas Home Range Maps
    7. Seasonal Home Range Maps (per subject)
    8. Recursion Events Raster
    9. Dry Season Mean Speed Raster
    10. Wet Season Mean Speed Raster
    11. Time of Day Dominance Map
    12. Night Fixes Map
  5. Protection Status Analysis
  6. Word Report & Dashboard
    1. Cover Page
    2. General Report Section
    3. Document Merge
    4. Interactive Dashboard
  7. Output Files
  8. Workflow Execution Logic
    1. Grouping Strategy
    2. Skip Conditions
    3. Previous Period Logic
    4. mapvalues Fan-out (Seasonal Home Range)
  9. Software Versions

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