Tracking

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Tracking may refer to:

In science and technology

Animal migration tracking, performed by attaching a tag to an animal
Environmental tracking, as performed by the Environmental Investment Organisation

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

Tracking (particle physics), measuring the direction and magnitude of momenta of charged particles
Electrical treeing or tracking, an electrical pre-breakdown phenomenon
Toe (automotive), also called tracking, in automotive engineering
Video tape tracking, alignment of the magnetic tape of a video recorder with the read head
Tracking, in dead reckoning, setting up a track on other objects momentarily viewed from the observer's location
The association of individual detections from a radar system, as performed by a radar tracker
Target tracking, an element of Go-Onto-Target systems of missile guidance

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

Tracking (education), separating children into classes according to academic ability
Tracking (scouting), a scouting activity
Tracking (typography), uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all letters in a block of text
Tracking, in financial portfolio management, matching or comparing with a stock market index
Manhunt (law enforcement) and manhunt (military), a search for a person or persons, using physical evidence