Advanced Conservation GIS & Remote Sensing Course
Measuring Landcover Change and Its Impact on Endangered Species
2009 Course Offerings
June 8-12
This one-week advanced GIS and remote sensing course provides conservation biologists and wildlife managers with an opportunity to learn how GIS and remote sensing can be used to assess the conservation status of endangered species. Each participant will be provided with her or her own desktop computer for all lab exercises. During the hands-on exercises, participants will use the Internet, ArcMap, ArcMap Spatial Analyst, ERDAS Imagine, Fragstats, and other spatial analysis programs. Instructors will lead participants step by step through the process of:
- conducting a regional conservation assessment using GIS to determine critical conservation areas for an endangered species
- acquiring multi-date satellite imagery to quantify land cover change and to map the extent of the remaining habitat
- using landscape analysis to determine optimal landscape configurations for conserving the endangered species
