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Howard Frederick, 12/04/2011 05:36 am

QGIS for Environmental/Natural Resource/ Forestry Management

During QGIS hackfest the idea of an ecological toolbox has popped up, thanks mainly to Johannes Signer.
Among currently available solutions, we thought about Hawth's tools and some other Arc* plugins; other tools, like Conefar 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.

See the discussion on Qgis'user mailing list for what has been said so far.

The actualisation of this idea needs at least 3 steps:
  • Identify the most common operations and algorithms: feel free to fill the section below
  • Consider picking up code from GRASS, R and other relevant open source program/library
  • Find a comfortable way to distribute it (customised QGIS? toolbox? separated plugins? library?)

Common operations and algorithms

Open source tools

Commonly used (closed or open source) solutions

Name
Purpose
Source
Notes
Hawth's tools
Swiss army knife for ArcGIS
Closed
Agustin Lobo lists here Hawth's tools, to find for each of them the open source equivalent.
Conefor
Quantifying the importance of habitat patches for landscape connectivity
Open
Circuitscape
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
Diva GIS
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)
ReBioMa
A public biodiversity web application that support data upload, validation, visualization, and automated species distribution modeling via Maxent.
Open
No explicit license
Maxent
Based on the maximum-entropy approach for species habitat modeling
Closed
LAMOS - Landscape Modelling Shell
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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Who's interested

  • Anne Ghisla
  • Johannes Signer
  • Agustin Lobo
  • Bram van Moorter
  • Rainer M. Krug
  • John C. Tull
  • David Campbell
  • Volkan Kepoglu
  • Borys Jurgiel
  • Howard Frederick
  • add yourself here