GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, play a crucial role in nature conservation. Every day, mapping and spatial analysis are aiding conservation decisions, protected areas designation, habitat management on reserves and monitoring of wildlife populations, to name but a few examples. Want to learn more about how remote sensing is used in conservation? Check out the first two episodes of this season of Tech Tutors, where our Tutors answer the questions How do I use open source remote sensing data to monitor fishing? and How do I access and visualise open source remote sensing data in Google Earth Engine?
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Hi Wildlabbers, Welcome back to Tech Tutors for season 2! This season's first episode featured Oceanmind's... |
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Marine Conservation, Remote Sensing & GIS, Sustainable Fishing Challenges | 3 years 5 months ago | |
Hi all! WILDLABS intern, Tatjana here. We're working on the second season of Tech Tutors, the webseries that... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 3 years 6 months ago | |
Webinar/training series: Remote Sensing for Mangroves in Support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This training focuses on mapping and monitoring mangroves and how it... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 3 years 6 months ago | |
Hello Nandini. I did something similar mapping carbon stocks of subsurface peat reserves in upland habitats in the UK. It was pretty basic though. Modelled the 3D volume of peat... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 3 years 10 months ago | |
There's an Esri webinar TODAY at 14:00 UTC Mapping to Save our Planet's Biodiversity with guest speakers including @... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 4 years 1 month ago | |
Hi all, Just a week until the Esri webinar on GIS and Conservation. Some interesting talks happening. Sign up here.... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 4 years 1 month ago | |
Hi all, I'm looking for a bit of advice on GIS, QGIS and Mapbox and thought it time to make use of the WildLabs community's well of... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 4 years 7 months ago | |
CBI and SCGIS have been running a second series of webinars this year. You can find recordings of all the previous webinars signposted here. Of note, see: Planetary-scale... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 4 years 10 months ago | |
The annual Google Geo for Good Summit is open for applications. Attendance is free of charge; however participants will be... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 5 years ago | |
Hi GIS-ers, This is a notification that the FOSS4G 2019 conference call for talks and workshops deadline is this coming Monday 15th... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 5 years ago | |
Following the successful Eye on Earth Symposium at the end of October, the team has announced that video recordings of all 35 sessions are now available. They've... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 5 years 2 months ago | |
Just to throw a couple options out there: Indonesia's one map portal The hanson map, which you can download from: Global forest watch Google Earth Engine Global... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 5 years 3 months ago |
Drone Training in the U.S.
5 May 2016 9:46am
Conservation apps with a GPS focus
5 April 2016 3:27pm
26 April 2016 4:53pm
Another option is OruxMaps, free for android, not very intuitive but very powerful. But it's important to bear in mind that phone GPS accuracy can be lower than "traditional" GPS, specially when part of the sky is blocked.
Here is a test https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/07/15/smartphones-tablets-and-gps-accuracy/
ZSL Symposium: Space - the final frontier for biodiversity monitoring?
19 April 2016 2:29pm
Indonesian Peatlands and the Need for New Monitoring Technologies
20 March 2016 6:15pm
Geographic Information System Equipment
9 March 2016 4:30pm
10 March 2016 11:46am
Hi Felix,
Thanks for sharing your question! I would have thought your course adviser might be the best person to advise about what equipment you would be required to take the course. However, GIS applications usually require access to a computer, a GIS program like ArcGIS or MapInfo, and access to information like satellite imagery or other data layers that are used by your GIS program. These should be provided by your university course - most universities have GIS labs where they teach you how to use the programs without the requirement to invest in equipment while learning.
Cheers,
Stephanie
10 March 2016 12:36pm
Thank you. I am doing pre reading and Information gathering, so I'll know what to expect and be prepared.
Thank you for your kind answer Stephanie.
Disruptive Technology: Embracing the Transformative Impacts of Software on Society
10 March 2016 12:00am
Mapping Reduced-Impact Logging with Lidar
8 March 2016 12:00am
New paper in Nature on Landsat data to reduce deforestation
25 February 2016 10:15am
Advance Remote sensing classification
17 February 2016 4:33pm
Google Earth Engine User Summit · June 2016
12 February 2016 7:09pm
Upcoming GIS and Remote Sensing Courses
9 February 2016 12:00am
GIS Storytelling: How Story Maps can harness the power of maps and geography to promote conservation
12 January 2016 2:54pm
Satellite imagery grants from Digital Globe Foundation
28 December 2015 3:22pm
ArcGIS subscriptions through ESRI Conservation Program grants
28 December 2015 2:50pm
Google Earth Outreach and Geo for Good conference
24 December 2015 8:47pm
Achieving Moonshots: Advancing Humankind and Preserving Nature
22 December 2015 12:00am
Cheap Space, DIY Imaging and Big Data
21 December 2015 12:00am
MapBiomas: New mapping platform will track annual deforestation in Brazil
17 December 2015 8:44pm
Cheap Space, DIY Imaging and Big Data = Good News for Conservation
16 November 2015 7:48pm
From Data Collection to Decisions
6 November 2015 12:00am
26 April 2016 2:34pm
My goto application is CyberTracker. It can be adapted on your desktop exactly to record the data that you want (including pictures and GPS reading, but not compass direction).