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Problem
Information is lost while preparing abundance to fit models.
During the Winter 2025 - 2026 Model QC we found it helpful to look at the ebird web visualization of the relative abundance to see two things that are not captured in the models:
- The model coverage. These are no data in the eBird S&T rasters. During data prep we overwrite them with zero. See Edge and Island bias from cell aggregation #12 and No data values in eBird abundance #229.
- The abundance prior to normalizing. In some weeks either due to poor detection or species exiting the modeled area ebird has much less abundance on the map. Normalization loses this information.
Proposed Changes
Store two more pieces of information in the BF model object:
- Model coverage
ebird_model_coverage- Either a binary indicating the cell was in the modeled area or a percentage tof the constituent cells that were in the modeled area. This would have values for all cells in the extent as it needs to cover areas outside of the dynamic mask. - Abundance prior to normalization We should store the total of the abundance for each week prior to the normalization. We could then add a new argument
typetoget_distr(). It would now have three optionsmarginal,normalized(normalized S&T),raw(S&T prior to normalization). The default would benormalizedmatching the prior default. Deprecate thefrom_marginalsargument BUT iffrom_marginalsis set to TRUE forcetypetomarginalso all existing code would be unaffected.rawis the new option and it would multiply the normalized distribution by the total for the week prior to normalization to restore the per-normalized version.
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