Tracking

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Tracking may refer to:

• Animal migration tracking by attaching a tag to the animal
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Environmental Tracking (ET), as performed by the Environmental Investment Organisation
• Tracking (video), a 1994 documentary about the band Phish
• Tracking (particle physics), the act of measuring the direction and magnitude of charged particles momenta

Logistics

• Track and trace, a process starting with determining the current and past locations and other status of property in transit
• Asset tracking provides regular information about objects of an inventory or any stock of mobile entities
• Tracking (novel), a three-part work by David R. Palmer

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

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
• Video tape tracking, alignment of the magnetic tape of a video tape recorder with respect to the reading head
• Tracking, composing music with tracker
• Web visitor tracking, the analysis of visitor behavior on a website

See also

• Tracing (disambiguation)
• Track (disambiguation)
• Tracker (disambiguation)
• Tracking system
• Tracking software (disambiguation)
• Tracking transmitter

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