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Tracking may refer to:
In science and technology
In computing
- Tracking, in computer piemel, a vital part of match moving
- Tracking, composing music with music tracker software
- Optical motion tracking, or motion capture
- Tracking, an essential component of augmented reality
- Video tracking, finding the location in each frame of a video sequence
- Web visitor tracking, the analysis of visitor behavior on a website
In life sciences
- Animal migration tracking, performed by attaching a tag to an animal
- Environmental tracking, a concept developed by the Environmental Investment Organisation to monitor climate change
In logistics
- Track and trace, a process of determining the current and past locations and other status of property in transit
- Asset tracking, which provides status of objects of an inventory or mobile stock
- Tracking (commercial airline flight), the means of tracking civil airline flights in real time
Other uses in science and technology
- Tracking (particle physics), measuring the direction and magnitude of the momenta of charged particles
- Tracking, a process of degradation in which tree-like carbonized patterns (electrical treeing) appear on an insulator
- Tracking or Toe (automotive), the symmetric angle that each wheel makes with the long axis of a vehicle
- Video tape tracking, alignment of the magnetic tape of a video recorder with the read head
- Tracking, combining individual radar detections with a radar tracker
- Tracking system, various methods used to monitor moving persons or objects, often remotely
- Tracking transmitter, a device that broadcasts a radio signal that can be detected by a directional antenna
- Target and missile tracking, elements of Go-Onto-Target systems in missile guidance
In arts and entertainment
- Tracking shot, a filming technique also known as a dolly shot
- Tracking (documentary), a 1994 documentary about the band Phish
- Tracking (novel), a three-part work by David R. Palmer
In sport
- Tracking (dog), the act of a dog following a scent trail
- Tracking (freeflying), in skydiving, the technique of moving horizontally while in freefall
- Tracking (hunting), the art of learning about a place via animal trails and other environmental evidence
- Tracking trial, a dog competition
Other uses
- Tracking (education), separating children into classes according to academic ability
- Tracking (scouting), a scouting activity focused on observation, stalking, and following a trail
- Tracking, typographers' term for letter-spacing, uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all letters in a block of text
- Tracking, matching or comparing the performance of a financial portfolio to a stock market index
See also
- Trace (disambiguation)
- Tracing (disambiguation)
- Track (disambiguation)
- Tracker (disambiguation)
- Tracking software (disambiguation)
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