Tracking Analyst is designed to handle data types such as vehicle locations, information from animals with radio collars or a computer model that's predicting where pollutants would be moving along a river. Time-dependent data Typical data in a GIS or desktop mapping system is assumed to derive from a single moment in time. Data sources and feeds Tracking Analyst has a flexible structure for accessing GeoEvent data. One data source example is a GPS receiver. Tracking Analyst accesses GPS data in the National Marine Electronics Association format and has been tested with several receivers from major vendors such as Ashtech, Garmin, Leica Geosystems, Magellan and Trimble Navigation.
Users create data format definition files that describe the data stream.
Tracking Analyst also can be configured to query a computer model that's computing a predicted or simulated location, and the model's output can be integrated into existing GIS data and displayed and analysed. ArcView Tracking Analyst allows users to define different symbol styles for GeoEvents. Symbol size, for example, may change with the value of an attribute, such as the wind velocity of a hurricane. Also, the software allows configuration of the TCP sockets and, on WinTel systems, the common-object model ports. The software also can be configured to display and actively use only a portion of the data feed.