CatMap

'CatMap' is a Participatory Science Project with Curious Minds, funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. This project built upon the work done by the Taranaki Furbabies cat-tracking project, and the Victoria University project 'Cat Tracker'. School children tracked their cats with GPS units^[1], ^[2], ^[3]and analysed where the cats went. CatMap focused on the areas adjacent to native bush to determine cats' preferred habitat

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Project Overview[edit | edit source]

Visit the Taranaki Furbabies cat-tracking project.

Partners in 'CatMap'[edit | edit source]

Welbourn School, New Plymouth

Inglewood Primary School

MAIN Trust NZ, Dr Dawn Mills (NP Vet Group), Dr Heidy Kikillus (VUW Cat Tracker NZ)

Information technology:[edit | edit source]

i-Naturalist project "What the cat brought in" to record what species the cats caught.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS): QGIS was used to visualise the GPS tracking data:
- 'Time Manager' was used to show the day/night movements of cats
- Sentinel-2 satellite imagery was used to define preferred habitats
Camtesia Studio recorded the QGIS screen and produced the mp4 videos