--- Start of Idrisi List message Hi Idrisians ! Perhaps this could be interesting for the biologists among you. I have written an ecology-oriented module for Idrisi (16 and 32), called "Biomapper". It is designed to take environment variables and species-presence maps in input and compute a habitat-suitability map in output (shortly said ;-) ) Please feel free to try it and send me your comments. You can download it on our website : http://www.unil.ch/izea/softwares/biomapper.html Here are some more precise information about "Biomapper", extracted from the help file: Biomapper is a kit of GIS- and statistical tools designed to build habitat suitability (HS) models and maps. It is centred on the Ecological Niche Factor Analysis (ENFA) (Hirzel & al., submit.) that allows to compute HS models without the need of absence data. More precisely, it can manage the following tasks: � Preparing the ecogeographical maps in order to use them as input for the ENFA (e.g. computing frequency of occurrence map, standardisation, masking, etc.) � Exploring and comparing them by mean of descriptive statistics (distribution analysis, etc.) � Computing the Ecological Niche Factor Analysis and exploring its output. � Computing a Habitat suitability map � Validating it Biomapper is designed to be autonomous but as it uses the same files format as the GIS software Idrisi, they can transparently work in conjunction. Please be sure to read the Rules of use before to work with Biomapper. Bye ! /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Alexandre HIRZEL Labo. de Biologie de la Conservation Institut d'Ecologie Tel:(+4121) 692 41 76 Facult� des Sciences, B�t. Biologie Fax:(+4121) 692 41 05 Universit� de Lausanne CH-1015 LAUSANNE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SWITZERLAND http://www.unil.ch/izea/people/ahirzel.html /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ --- End of Idrisi List message IDRISI-L is an unmoderated list. As a service to list users, please post a summary of useful responses to your questions. To post a message to IDRISI-L, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list, send an email from the address to be subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe" (without quotes) as the first line of the message body. To unsubscribe, do the same, only with "unsubscribe" as the first line of the message body.
