Tracking

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Tracking can refer to:

• Tracking, separating children into different classes according to their academic ability
• Tracking, in computer graphics, a vital part of match moving
• Tracking, a term in education related to ability grouping
• Tracking, in portfolio management, matching or comparing with a stock market index
• Tracking and tracing, in logistics, the process of uniformly building a track of objects that are forwarded to, processed for, applied in or disposed of usage
• Tracking, a subject of reckoning, concerning setting up a track on other objects momentarily viewed from the observer's own location
• Tracking (typography), the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all letters in a block of text
• Tracking (space flight), tracking satellites from a tracking station.
• Tracking (hunting), the science and art of learning about a place via animal trails and everything else there
• Tracking (Scouting), a Scouting activity

In sports:

• Tracking (freeflying), in skydiving, the technique of moving horizontally while in free-fall
• Tracking (dog), the act of a dog following a scent trail
• Tracking trial, a dog competition

In technology:

• Video tracking, finding the location of an object of the scene on each frame of the sequence, when processing a video sequence
• Tracking, for VCRs, the alignment of the magnetic tape with respect to the reading head
• Composing music with tracker software

[edit] See also

• Track
• Tracker (disambiguation)