Advanced Course Schedule
| Monday | |
| 12-1 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1-3 p.m. | Introduction to CRC, Lab,
and Course Introduction to the software and equipment used during the course. |
| 3:30-5 p.m. | Data Acquisition Finding your own data, downloading it, importing it, and combining it with other data. |
| Tuesday | |
| 8-10 a.m. | Image Correction |
| 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. |
Change Detection |
| 1:30-5:30 p.m. | Landscape Analyses at
Regional Scales Determining landscape characteristics using Fragstats and ArcView extensions in relation to specific species. |
| Wednesday | |
| 8-12 a.m. | Regional Conservation Assessment (Part 1) Where have all the wildlands gone? Thinking analytically with GIS. |
| 1:30-5:30 p.m. | Regional Conservation Assessment (Part 2) GIS analysis for Asian elephant conservation assessment. |
| Thursday | |
| 8-12 a.m. | Habitat Selection in Dynamic Ecosystems (Part 1) Using MODIS NDVI satellite imagery to analyze Mongolian gazelle habitat preference in the Eastern Steppes. |
| 1:30-5:30 p.m. | Habitat Selection in Dynamic Ecosystems (Part 2) Using R ecological software with ArcGIS to model and predict Mongolian gazelle habitat preference. |
| Friday | |
| 8 a.m.- 12 p.m. |
Climate Change Modeling Using Worldclim data and Maxent and ArcGIS software to predict effects of climate change on future habitat availability for giant pandas. |
| 12 p.m. | End of Course |
