Patterns in Mongolian nomadic household movement derived from GPS trajectories

Henning Teickner; Christian Knoth; Thomas Bartoschek; Kati Kraehnert; Melinda Vigh; Myagmartseren Purevtseren; Munkhnaran Sugar; Edzer Pebesma

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102270

Patterns in Mongolian nomadic household movement derived from GPS trajectories

Henning Teickner, Christian Knoth^*, Thomas Bartoschek, Kati Kraehnert, Melinda Vigh, Myagmartseren Purevtseren, Munkhnaran Sugar, Edzer Pebesma

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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 30min. A total of 142of 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.

Original language	English
Article number	102270
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	Applied Geography
Volume	122
Early online date	4 Jul 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102270
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

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The research and data on which this study is based were generously funded by Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany , funding initiative “Between Europe and the Orient”, research grant 88498 . Kati Kraehnert was affiliated with the German Institute for Economic Research while major parts of the research presented here were conducted. Myagmartseren Purevtseren and Munkhnaran Sugar were supported in 2019–2020 by the Asia Research Center, National University of Mongolia — Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies ( ARC-KFAS ), project number P2019-3743. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments which greatly improved the manuscript.

Funders	Funder number
ARC-KFAS	P2019-3743
Asia Research Center
National University of Mongolia ?
National University of Mongolia — Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies
Volkswagen Stiftung
Volkswagen Foundation	88498
Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies

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GPS trajectories
Movement pattern analysis
Nomadic mobility

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