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

[Micha Silver]

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.
>
>   
I'd like to see a simple set of tools for patch analysis: patch density, 
perimeter to area ratio, std. dev of patch sizes etc. Similar to what's 
available from the GRASS r.le.* modules.
Then that might lead to tools for connectivity analysis, like the 
circuitscape example you sited.
Regards,
Micha

> 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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