[Qgis-user] Ecological toolbox for QGIS - collecting ideas

[Agustin Lobo]

I'm not sure if the term "Ecological toolbox" is appropriate, as
few (GIS and not GIS) tools used in Ecology are actually used only
in Ecology and,
actually, most of them were not developed for Ecology.
Anyway, I agree with the essential, that is having the tools to solve
the GIS-related problems faced by people working in Ecology.
Some months ago I actually started a page (never released but
viewable in http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/mihawthstoolgnu2)
in which I was just listing Hawth's tools with the idea of
writing there how to perform those operations but using open source
or public domain software (excuse for my illiteracy on legal terms).
Unfortunately, I've not been able to find the time for this and
all entries remain unlinked to an answer.

In summary, not sure if this has to be collected as an specific toolbox,
as, for example, many tools will be shared with social scientists, but
for sure the tools have to be available. So I'll be most happy adding my
little grains of sand to that mountain.

Agus


Anne Ghisla wrote:
> Hi all, and sorry for cross-posting,
> 
> during QGIS hackfest the idea of an ecological toolbox has popped up,
> thanks mainly to Johannes Signer.
> Among currently available standalone bundles, we thought about Hawth's
> tools [0] and some other Arc* plugins; other tools, like Conefar [1]
> and Circuitscape [2], are dedicated GIS clones and could not cover all
> analysis requirements, therefore obliging the user to switch among
> different programs.
> We'd like to ask ecology researchers, teachers and students what are
> the most common analyses you run, and if you'd like to have the
> related tools available for QGIS in a toolbox just like for example
> GRASS toolbox.
> 
> Thanks for feedback, and feel free to forward the message to relevant
> people and mailing lists!
> Anne Ghisla
> 
> [0] http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/tooldesc.php
> [1] http://www.conefor.org/
> [2] http://www.circuitscape.org/Circuitscape/Welcome.html
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