Tracking

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, in automotive engineering, a synonym for Toe (automotive)
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
The purpose of a satellite tracker (disambiguation)
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 other environmental evidence
Tracking (Scouting), a Scouting activity
Tracking, an electrical pre-breakdown phenomenon, see Electrical treeing
Tracking shot, a filming technique also known as a dolly shot
The association of individual detections from a radar system, performed by a radar tracker
Target tracking, one of the elements of Go-Onto-Target systems of missile guidance

In logistics

Track & Trace 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.
Asset tracking provides regular information about objects of an inventory or any stock of mobile entities

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:

Optical motion tracking
Video tracking, finding the location of an object of the scene on each frame of the sequence, when processing a video sequence
Tracking, alignment of the magnetic tape of a Video cassette recorder with respect to the reading head
Tracking, composing music with tracker (music software)
Web visitor tracking, the analysis of visitor behavior on a website

See also