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Ecology Tools

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h3. QGIS for Environmental/Natural Resource/ Forestry Management
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During [[2. QGIS Hackfest in Vienna 2009|QGIS hackfest]] the idea of an ecological toolbox has popped up, thanks mainly to Johannes Signer.






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Among currently available solutions, we thought about Hawth's tools and some other Arc* plugins; other tools, like Conefor and Circuitscape, are dedicated GIS clones and could not cover all analysis requirements, therefore obliging the user to switch among different programs, that often implies different formats and consequent unuseful extra work.






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See the "discussion on Qgis-user mailing list":http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2009-November/006843.html for what has been said so far.






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Idea: create the Toolbox into Sextante.






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The actualisation of this idea needs at least 3 steps:






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* Identify the most common operations and algorithms: feel free to fill the section below






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* Consider picking up code from GRASS, R and other relevant open source program/library






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* Find a comfortable way to distribute it (customised QGIS? toolbox? separated plugins? library?)






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h4. Common operations and algorithms 






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* raster comparison tools of the Map Comparison Kit (http://www.riks.nl/mck/)






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* niche modelling / habitat suitability






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* Distance sampling ( http://www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/distance/ 






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* QGIS plugins: 






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** "PADB plugin":http://gis-lab.info/programs/padb/index-eng.html by GIS-Lab community http://svn.gis-lab.info/pa-db-qgis/






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** [[HomeRange_plugin]]






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** "RandomHR (AniMove)":https://wiki.faunalia.it/dokuwiki/doku.php/public/animove_qgis_plugins






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** "SDA4PP Plugin":http://ggit.metu.edu.tr/~volkan/index.html






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* "OpenModeller":http://openmodeller.sourceforge.net/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1






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* "CAPS-Scenario-Builder":https://github.com/EcoGIS/CAPS-Scenario-Builder that is a PyQGIS application






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* "GRASS GIS":http://grass.itc.it/






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* "R":http://cran.r-project.org/, see "Econometrics Task View":http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Environmetrics.html and "Spatial Task View":http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html






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| *Name*| *Purpose*| *Source*| *Notes*|






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| "Hawth's tools":http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/tooldesc.php| Swiss army knife for ArcGIS| Closed| Agustin Lobo "lists here":http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/mihawthstoolgnu2 Hawth's tools, to find for each of them the open source equivalent.|






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| "GME - Geospatial Modelling Environment":http://www.spatialecology.com/gme/index.htm | Successor of Hawth's tools | Custom | Interested in open source GIS integration |






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| "Conefor":http://www.conefor.org/| Quantifying the importance of habitat patches for landscape connectivity| Open| |






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| "Circuitscape":http://www.circuitscape.org/Circuitscape/Welcome.html| Uses algorithms from electronic circuit theory to predict patterns of movement, gene flow, and genetic differentiation among plant and animal populations in heterogeneous landscapes| Open| | 






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| "Diva GIS":http://www.diva-gis.org/| standalone GIS well suited for biodiversity data, such as the distribution of species, good raster analysis|  Closed | Possible porting of algorithms into QGIS, or release of code as open source (Wildintellect)|






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| "ReBioMa":http://code.google.com/p/rebioma/| A public biodiversity web application that support data upload, validation, visualization, and automated species distribution modeling via Maxent.| Open| No explicit license|






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| "Maxent":http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/maxent/| Based on the maximum-entropy approach for species habitat modeling| Closed|  |






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| "LAMOS - Landscape Modelling Shell":http://www.simulistics.com/examples/catalogue/modeldescription.php?Id=lamos1| Explore the role of different processes (such as vegetation dynamics and fire spread)in the dynamics of landscapes| Closed| Implemented into Simile|






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h4. Who's interested 






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* Anne Ghisla






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* Johannes Signer






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* Agustin Lobo






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* Bram van Moorter






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* Rainer M. Krug






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* John C. Tull






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* David Campbell






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* Howard Frederick






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* _*add yourself here*_