STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SPORT MOVEMENT OBSERVATIONS: THE CASE OF ORIENTEERING

Study of movement observations is becoming more popular in several applications. Particularly, analyzing sport movement time series has been considered as a demanding area. However, most of the attempts that have been made on analyzing movement sport data have focused on spatial aspects of the movement to extract some movement characteristics, such as spatial patterns and similarities. This paper proposes statistical analysis of sport movement observations, which refers to analyzing changes in the spatial movement attributes (e.g. distance, altitude and slope) and non-spatial movement attributes (e.g., speed and heart rate) of athletes. As the case study, an example data set of the movement observations acquired during the “orienteering” sport is presented and statistically analyzed. In this paper, we only consider a specific land cover to examine the movement time series and some relations between movement characteristics.