Share Your Work
The Society for Conservation GIS functions to build community, provide knowledge, and support individuals using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By sharing your important work you assist conservationists worldwide in using GIS.
Please feel free to contribute your project's accomplishments to this web page. Please email the SCGIS Webczar [support@scgis.org] with your project description (one paragraph please). Be sure to include links to other websites or publications.
Peruse SCGIS members' GIS work below:
With LANDFIRE, you can view and download
geospatial layers and data products that depict the nation's major ecosystems, wildlife habitat, vegetation or canopy characteristics, landscape features, and wildland fire behavior, effects, and regimes. These data layers traverse jurisdictional land boundaries and provide the public free data products for numerous applications, including wildland fire management and landscape conservation. LANDFIRE is a shared effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior.
LANDFIRE data products are designed to facilitate national- and regional-level strategic planning and reporting of management activities. Data products are created at a 30-meter grid spatial resolution raster data set; however, the applicability of data products varies by location and specific use. Users are advised to evaluate the data carefully for their applications. The principal purposes of the data products are:
- Provide national-level, landscape-scale geospatial products to support fire and fuels management planning
- Provide consistent fuels data to support fire planning, analysis, and budgeting to evaluate fire management alternatives
- Provide landscape–scale, cross-boundary strategic products for fire and land management activities
- Supplement planning and management activities, including monitoring, that require consistent vegetation data
- Supplement strategic and tactical planning for fire operations
Our mission is to secure a future for the elephants and sustain the beauty and ecological integrity of the places they live, as we develop a tolerant relationship between elephants and human beings. We use GSM and satellite collars to track individual animals in order to understand how they make choices often in habitats under a complex of land uses. We have collaborated with other researchers to track other species too in a ground breaking collaborative telemetry research.
University of Rhode Island, Natural Resources and Environmental Management
University of Rhode Island, Natural Resources and Environmental Management (www.edc.uri.edu) is providing research based knowledge to enable people to improve their lives and communities. Their web site is a portal to many different projects and applications using GIS.
- Rhode Island Geographic Information System (RIGIS): http://www.edc.uri.edu/rigis/
- Rhode Island Critical Resources Atlas: http://www.edc.uri.edu/riatlas/
The goal of this project is to use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and the Internet to create and distribute maps of the critical natural resources for every town and watershed in Rhode Island. The maps are designed to assist land use managers in planning and development activities, and are easily interpretable for use by the general public.
- Coastal Eelgrass Habitats of Rhode Island: http://www.edc.uri.edu/Eelgrass/
The purpose of this mapping project is to provide resource managers and the public with an interactive way to access existing data that shows the extent of known eelgrass beds in Rhode Island. Managers, biologists, and the public will be able to gauge the approximate extent of eelgrass in certain areas for a better understanding of potential impacts their activities may have on these vulnerable habitats.
- Coastal Eelgrass Habitats of Rhode Island: http://www.edc.uri.edu/Eelgrass/
- Critical Lands In Rhode Island: http://www.edc.uri.edu/criticallands/
- Large Marine Ecosystems: http://www.edc.uri.edu/lme/
- An ecosystem strategy for the assessment and management of international coastal ocean waters. The portal page for all this is www.edc.uri.edu