-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, and sorry for top and cross posting,
first of all, thanks for feedback and enthusiasm about the topic. I've tried to collect in this wiki page [0] what came up in the thread, and I'm looking forward for more contribution! best regards, Anne [0] http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Ecology_Tools Rainer M Krug ha scritto: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Micha Silver <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anne Ghisla wrote: >> >>> Hi all, and sorry for cross-posting, >>> >>> during QGIS hackfest the idea of an ecological toolbox has popped up, >>> thanks mainly to Johannes Signer. >>> Among currently available standalone bundles, we thought about Hawth's >>> tools [0] and some other Arc* plugins; other tools, like Conefar [1] >>> and Circuitscape [2], are dedicated GIS clones and could not cover all >>> analysis requirements, therefore obliging the user to switch among >>> different programs. >>> We'd like to ask ecology researchers, teachers and students what are >>> the most common analyses you run, and if you'd like to have the >>> related tools available for QGIS in a toolbox just like for example >>> GRASS toolbox. >>> >>> > I think this is a brilliant idea. A friend of mine is using Diva GIS for > teaching, as it has a very good toolbox for ecological GIS work (according > to him - I haven't used it yet) - but Diva is one reason, why he still needs > Windows in a virtual machine. > > So it might be an option, to look into Diva to see what they have, and > include those into QGIS. > > I like that idea of ecological analysis tools that much, that I would > suggest an approach which enables the use of these tools from other programs > as well (I am thinking in particular about R and GRASS). I guess, it would > be more work, but I think it would be worth. > > A set of tools for spatial ecological analysis - like GDAL and OGR are for > raster and vectors IO - that would be BRILLIANT. > > Rainer > > > > >> I'd like to see a simple set of tools for patch analysis: patch density, >> perimeter to area ratio, std. dev of patch sizes etc. Similar to what's >> available from the GRASS r.le.* modules. >> Then that might lead to tools for connectivity analysis, like the >> circuitscape example you sited. >> Regards, >> Micha >> >> Thanks for feedback, and feel free to forward the message to relevant >>> people and mailing lists! >>> Anne Ghisla >>> >>> [0] http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/tooldesc.php >>> [1] http://www.conefor.org/ >>> [2] http://www.circuitscape.org/Circuitscape/Welcome.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkr5oZ4ACgkQzZ3g4YwFFgbKegCeK5zG0SQjgI+PGavZ5DuGNrh2 7OgAn1EV5qXOIIaADftp0T3NPYo/hdCV =k6lE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ AniMov mailing list [email protected] http://lists.faunalia.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/animov
