Journal
APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
Volume 122, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102270
Keywords
Nomadic mobility; GPS trajectories; Movement pattern analysis
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- Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany, funding initiative Between Europe and the Orient'' [88498]
- Asia Research Center, National University of Mongolia -Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (ARC-KFAS) [P2019-3743]
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This paper presents an approach for a quantitative analysis of movement patterns of nomadic households based on GPS trajectories. We distributed GPS loggers to 400 Mongolian herder households who carried them over a 9-month period, continuously recording position data every 30 min. A total of 142 of the resulting trajectories fulfilled our data quality criteria and were considered during the analysis. Based on this data, we derive summary indicators describing key parameters of the households' mobility including measures of distance and number of movements as well as shape characteristics of the trajectories. We conduct an explorative statistical analysis of these summary indicators to investigate patterns in the nomadic mobility. We identify three movement strategies based on the number of different campsite locations and the distances traveled between campsites. We also compare the results to the existing literature on the mobility of Mongolian herders. Our findings show that GPS-based studies present a suitable framework to quantitatively analyze different movement strategies of nomadic herders.
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