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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The Cambridge Conservation Forum's Conservation GIS group had returned! If you're based in or around Cambridge, and are... |
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The first bi-monthly Conservation GIS social of 2017 will be at The Eagle on Benet Street from 18:00 on Thursday 9th March. This informal... |
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I'm a software developer with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), working on online map-based applications for bird surveys (e.g. BirdTrack). My main focus is the... |
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Hey MGatta, I'm working with adehabitatLt as well, i have a good paper on spatial referencing your data and changing your coordinates to UTM, if you want it (by C.J.... |
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Hello all, I came across this website featuring free vector and raster datasets. Feel free to use it! |
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Now the course is officially over, I wonder how people found it? Too difficult, too easy or just right? |
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I'm not affiliated with Google or this event, but I thought it would be of interest to the community. I have previously attended and it... |
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Things just got a whole lot easier for those of us at universities who train students to use drones as tools for conservation. Many... |
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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... |
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Hawai'i Conservation Conference
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ICEI2020: 11th International Conference on Ecological Informatics
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Conservation remote sensing webinar series
5 October 2018 7:40am
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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 monitoring with Google Earth Engine
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The Potential of GEDI Lidar for Biodiversity Conservation Applications
The next upcioming webinar is Integrating Remote Sensing With Conservation Analysis Workflows on June 11, 10:00 PDT (register here).
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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 also shared a recording of the Global Environmental Education Partnership webinar: http://bit.ly/EoeWebinars
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Just to throw a couple options out there:
The hanson map, which you can download from:
Global Land Analysis and Discovery
You could also make your own map from the raw satellite data but that is a bit more involved.
Tom
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Hi Sheryl,
This sounds great, thank you for sharing! As you may be aware, we had the UK National Earth Observation Conference 2018 here in the UK just last week (and you can see the abstracts here).
I'll share your call for submissions with colleagues in the Cambridge conservation community, noting your September 21st deadline.
Best wishes,
Thom
18 September 2018 11:58am
Hi Thom,
Thanks a lot for the response! The abstracts were very interesting and I hope we can share more of the work from you and your colleagues.
Please feel free to send me a message or an email regarding this matter.
All the best and thanks,
Sheryl
NASA Webinar: Change Detection for Land Cover
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Next Generation Animal Tracking Ideation Challenge
14 September 2018 12:00am
Compendium of guidance on key global databases related to biodiversity related conventions
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Is anyone using off-the-shelf GIS data collection apps? e.g. Collector for ArcGIS
8 March 2018 5:11pm
14 March 2018 11:28pm
So Collector is really for editing data, or adding GIS info in the field in a map interface. Works offline. It's ok for that purpose, you can take your entire map, basemap offline to the field, you can see what data has been collected in real-time, but can be buggy and if you accidentelly log out you're completely out of luck with no connection.
I use it to track drone flights - i.e. I flew here, with some notes.
Survey123 is ESRI's solution for ODK or form based surveys. I like it a lot, it's flexible, you don't need people to log in and it just looks better than ODK and works on iOS, and doesn't require the annoying server set-up of ODK and has great offline capability. But it's form-based, you don't really see the data you are editing in a map. But the best part are the analysis features where you can see stats on responses and such.
Let me know if you have more questions, we have used survey123 extensively, also in places where people have limited cell network, and limited knowledge of smartphones.
28 March 2018 12:40pm
Hi Steve,
Over on Twitter, @RLong has a suggestion that might be useful?
Dave Moskowitz https://t.co/ZJhAPTgzyx has developed some @ESRI Collector workflows for his work with @ConservationNW. You might get in touch with one of them for advice.
— Robert Long (@RLongEco) March 28, 2018
James Bevan also has some feedback:
I’ve used iGIS quite a bit to map points, lines and polygons. Created shapefiles can be emailed or stored in Dropbox and transferred to ArcGIS. The paid version also can calculate area and distance. Cons: somewhat fiddly to use.
— James Bevan (@JamesRBevan) April 9, 2018
Cheers
Steph
24 August 2018 5:18pm
Hi Steve,
I have used GIS Pro by Garafa on an iPad. I found it was one of the only apps that allowed importing of custom raster images. This feature has allowed me to take an image into the field, and ditize on it directly. I am mapping individual trees in airborne remote sensing data, so accurate digitizatoin with reference to my specific image is a must.
Other useful features are that you can create and edit vectors (points, lines, and polygons) and you cache basemaps (Google, Bing...) to work offline.
Happy to talk more about my application and experience with this app.
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