Tracking
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Tracking can refer to:
- Tracking (education), separating children into different classes according to their academic ability
- Tracking, in computer graphics, a vital part of match moving
- Tracking, in portfolio management, matching or comparing with a stock market index
- Tracking, a subject of dead 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 (commercial airline flight), the means of tracking civil airline flights in realtime.
- Tracking (hunting), the science and art of learning about a place via animal trails and everything else there
- Go-Onto-Target (GOT) guidance systems
- Tracking (Scouting), a Scouting activity
- Tracking (electrical), the formation of partially conductive paths across the surface of an electrical insulator that degrade, or destroy, its insulating capabilities
- Tracking shot, a filming technique also known as a dolly shot
In logistics
- Tracking and tracing concerns a process starting with determining the current and past locations and other status of property in transit. Tracking and tracing is the completion of this process with uniformly building a track of such property that are forwarded to, processed for, applied in or disposed of usage.
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
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