ORTEGA

ORTEGA is a python package for analyzing and visualizing potential interactions between a pair of moving entities based on the observation of their movement using a time-geographic-based approach. ORTEGA contributes two significant capabilities: 1) the function of detecting potential interactions (e.g., encounters, concurrent interaction, delayed interaction) from movement data of two entities; 2) the ability to calculate attributes of potential interactions including start time, end time, interaction duration, and difference in movement parameters such as speed and movement direction.

Current version of ORTEGA only supports inputting GPS points of a pair of moving entities. It works the best when the two entities were tracked with the same sampling rate. The results may not be desirable when the sampling rate is different. In addition, ORTEGA currently can only measure the duration of concurrent interaction but not delayed interaction.

Citation info:

Dodge, S., Su, R., Johnson, J., Simcharoen, A., Goulias, K., Smith, J. L., & Ahearn, S. C. (2021). ORTEGA: An object-oriented time-geographic analytical approach to trace space-time contact patterns in movement data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 88, 101630.

Su, R., Dodge, S., & Goulias, K. (2022). A classification framework and computational methods for human interaction analysis using movement data. Transactions in GIS, 26(4), 1665-1682.

Getting started

ORTEGA can be installed through pip command.

pip install ortega

How to use ortega

Check our example notebook to learn how to use ORTEGA for interaction analysis using movement data of two entities.

Find any bugs?

You may report any bugs here.

License

ORTEGA is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.