[OSGeo-Edu] foss4g examples of biodiversity/env. health

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

just found this message today - we are working on infectious diseases
such as tick-borne and rodent-borne diseases within the European
project "EDEN" (http://www.eden-fp6project.net/).

In our workgroup at Center of Alpine Ecology (CEA) we use,
guess what, GRASS, QGIS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GDAL, R-stats etc to
do data preparation and analysis. My personal work in the project
is focused on data preparation including MODIS satellite data
processing and derivation of environmental indicators from MODIS
as well as risk mapping using the "randomForest" machine learning
algorithm within R.

Some material is here:
http://mpa.itc.it/rs/
with pointers to articles and presentations.

Let me know if you are interested in any material for your presentation.

Markus

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CEA, Centro di Ecologia Alpina, http://www.cealp.it/
  38040 Viote del Monte Bondone (Trento), Italy
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  Via Sommarive, 18 - 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy

On 3/27/07, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> folks,
>
> I have been invited to present at a workshop on open access to
> scientific data in Brazil in May. I am putting together a talk
> showcasing biodiversty and env. health projects where open geospatial
> made a difference. I ask for your input -- if you know of projects
> where open geospatial technology and data made a difference in the
> area of biodiversity or env. health, please send me the information so
> I may include the highlights in the presentation. Highlights should
> focus on the challenges, and how the open nature of technology and
> data helped overcome the challenge.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/
> Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
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