The Smithsonian National Zoological Park's Conservation and Research Center is offering the following Advanced Conservation GIS and Remote Sensing course:
Measuring Landcover Change and its Impact on Endangered Species 8-12 June, 2009 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This one-week advanced GIS and remote sensing course provides Conservation biologists and wildlife managers an opportunity to learn how GIS and remote sensing can be used to assess the conservation status of endangered species. Each participant is provided with his 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 processes of: * conducting a regional conservation assessment using GIS to determine critical conservation areas for an endangered species * acquiring multi-date satellite imagery used to quantify land cover change and map the extent of remaining habitat * using landscape analysis to determine optimal landscape configurations for conserving an endangered species. * practice working with advanced GIS tools such as model builder, fragstats, patch analyst, and discriminate function analysis * modeling habitat selection using MODIS imagery Visit the following web address for more details and registration Information: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/advanced_GIS/ <http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/advanced_GIS/> Contact: Melissa Songer [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 1500 Remount Road Front Royal, VA 22630 540-635-6535 (GIS Lab) 540-635-6506 (FAX) **Note: The CRC also offers an introductory course, GIS and Remote Sensing for Wildlife Managers June 1 - 5 2009. For more information on any of our courses please see: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/ <http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/>
