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
• Video tape tracking, alignment of the magnetic tape of a video tape 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

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