The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is offering the following advanced GIS and remote sensing course:
Measuring Landcover Change and its Impact on Endangered Species May 24 - 28 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This one-week advanced GIS and remote sensing course provides conservationists 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 their own desktop computer for all lab exercises. During the hands-on exercises participants will use the Internet, ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, Fragstats, and other spatial analysis programs. Instructors will lead participants step-by-step through the process of: * conduct 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. * And, for the first time, we will be including a two-part module: SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS USING THE R STATISTICAL PACKAGE, which will introduce conservationists to this powerful free software environment (part 1) and show how it can be used for spatial data analysis (part 2) Visit the following web address for more details and registration information. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/advanced_GIS/ Contact: GIS Course Coordinator [email protected] 1500 Remount Road Front Royal, VA 22630 540-635-6535 (GIS Lab) 540-635-6506 (FAX) **Note: An introductory course will be offered May 17-21 For more information on any of our other courses please see: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/GIS_training/
