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Recent advances in tracking technologies result in geographic information representing the movement of individuals at previously unseen spatial and temporal granularities. This new, inherently spatiotemporal, kind of geographic information offers new insights into dynamic geographic processes but also challenges the traditionally rather static spatial analysis toolbox. This chapter presents an introductory overview to movement data in general (Sect. 22.2), the theory for modeling and analyzing movement (Sects. 22.2.1, 22.3), as well as a set of key application fields of movement analysis (Sect. 22.3). Finally, the chapter addresses privacy concerns relevant to the analysis of human movement.