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I am desperately trying to calculate animals home range with kernel. Unfortunately, the result is obviously incorrect and I cannot identify my mistake (I would like to post a screenshot but its not allowed to me yet).

Is there an instruction how to fill in the parameters for kernel density estimation?

Is there a concept how the attribute table has to look like? (I have three columns: ID, longitude, latitude in decimal degrees)

Using QGIS 1.8

nmtoken
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    You shouldn't be using geographic coordinates for this purpose: project your data first. (This is discussed in the answer at http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/50791/664.) That may in itself resolve your problem, because then the kernel radius/half-width/bandwidth will be measured in meaningful units. It might also help to have an intuitive grasp of KDE. Although this thread mentions ArcMap, its answers apply to any GIS: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/14374/interpretation-of-arcgis-kernel-density-legend-parameters. – whuber Jun 27 '13 at 15:38
  • You ask many questions, all of which have been asked and answered here: please search our site. – whuber Jul 05 '13 at 12:54
  • I now understand that I have to transform my geographic coordinates into UTM in order to calculate kernel with the plugin ANIMOVE. but i cannot find a solution how to do this (in QGIS, in excel??) PLEASE can somebody help me! – SarKath Jul 08 '13 at 10:08
  • As whuber recommended I searched the forum for an explanation how to project geographic longitude/latitude data into UTM in order to calculate kernel, but there is none! its very dissapointing that people are not willing to help. thank you very much!! – SarKath Jul 12 '13 at 10:56
  • Really? A search on projection UTM gets over 300 hits, but you find none of them helpful? – whuber Jul 12 '13 at 13:33

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