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FREE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS AND GIS SOFTWAREREMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS AND GISBefore you decide on getting a new Remote sensing applications and GIS programme, please read our GIS Review page on GIS4BIOLOGISTS REVIEWS ILWISAnd then a few words about Geographical Information Systems, GIS. The market leaders for GIS software are ESRI, ERDAS and IDRISI. The first, being a vector GIS and the latter two raster and remote sensing programs. To operate GIS, one needs both a vector GIS and a raster remote sensing GIS, meaning that if one is to use any of the market leaders, one needs at least two programmes. That make remote sensing and GIS an extremely costly discipline that requires somewhere between $10,000 and $30,000 dollars in professional licenses. The world's best alternative to the market leaders is ILWIS, both for its technical characteristics and it is also open source. It combines raster and vector remote sensing and GIS in one programme, it is extremely user-friendly and is has been developed by a very respectable autonomous government institution, the ITC in the Netherlands! It is extremely powerful and performing almost any application for natural resources management more efficiently than the market leaders. And the amazing thing: From July 2007 ILWIS HAS COMPLETELY FREE! Why in the world are natural resources managers even considering the programmes from the market leaders if a more user-friendly product is free for downloading? See more about this on our ILWIS website
GRASSGRASS, Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, is a free open source GIS Raster and Vector remote sensing and GIS. Like ILWIS, it is rather versatile, but it is much less user-friendly. Before you decide on getting a new GIS programme, please read our GIS Review page on GIS4BIOLOGISTS REVIEWS PCRasterSimulating environmental processes with computer models is expanding rapidly in scientific and applied research in fields such as hydrology, ecology, process geomorphology , land degradation and crop yield studies. Computer models help us to understand better the characteristics of environmental processes and the impact of any changes made to them. Building environmental computer models is difficult because these models must describe both the space and time variation of natural phenomena and must be able to handle huge amounts of environmental data. PCRaster offers a unique solution to this problem. It is a system that brings together environmental modelling and GIS. It offers a powerful Dynamic Modelling language for building iterative spatio-temporal environmental models, which is fully integrated in the GIS. It includes functionality for data storage, manipulation and visualisation, without the burden of data exchange between model and GIS. PCRaster provides data interfaces to other packages for spatial data analysis ( GIS's, software for statistical analysis). This programme requires considerable knowledge and is not suitable for occasional GIS users. Before you decide on getting a new GIS programme, please read our GIS Review page on GIS4BIOLOGISTS REVIEWS
MICOSYS, stands for Minimum Conservation SystemIn 1992, the World Bank needed to evaluate the
protected areas system of Costa Rica to evaluate the representativeness of the
protected areas system of the country, identify the missing ecosystems (gaps)
and to model the costing of the system and potentially necessary additions. The
application ran in a spreadsheet and was called MICOSYS, which stands for "MInimum
COservation SYStem". It became the first computer-based protected areas
modelling system in the world and still is the only system in the world that
combines a costing modeling module and a financing analysis module that can
simulate when the system may reach financial sustainability. WICE provides the
application free for downloading from http://www.nationalparks-worldwide.info/national_parks/national_parks_systems_development.htm Protected areas and ecosystem monitoring databaseThe world's most comprehensive single-computer protected areas and ecosystems monitoring database can be found at: http://www.monitoring_nature.info with manuals, fieldforms, etc. Management effectiveness evaluation toolLook here for a very effective management effectiveness evaluation tool Metadata GeneratorHere we facilitate 2 metadata generators
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NATURE WORLDWIDE is the official website of the World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE. It is an integrated network of web sites dealing with different topics on nature, nature conservation and natural resources management. Read here why we created Nature Worldwide. Our Methodology explains how we produced our information. Our Site Map helps you find your way in the website. We made this website out of passion for conservation. We spent our own salaries and free time to gather the information and publish it on these websites, in total valuing hundreds of thousands of dollars of professional time. Nobody pays us to do this. We simply want to contribute to conservation. If you appreciate our work, PLEASE visit our site Adopt A Ranger and see how you can make a difference for conservation most effectively: By paying one day of the salary of a ranger, you will make a difference in conserving the lives of thousands of birds, other critters and entire forests. Enjoy! NATURE DU MONDE est le site Web officiel du World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE, C'est une collection intégrée de sites web qui traitent avec des sujets différents sur nature, conservation de la nature et gestion des ressources naturelles. Lisez ici pourquoi nous avons créé Nature de Monde. Notre Methodologie explique comme nous avons produit nos renseignements. Notre Site Map vous aide trouver votre entrée dans le site web. Beaucoup de plaisir! NATURALEZA DEL MUNDO es la página Web oficial del World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE, Es una red de páginas Web tratando de temas diferentes relacionados a la naturaleza, la conservación el manejo de recursos naturales, parques nacionales y áreas protegidas. Lea aqui porqué hicimos Naturaleza del Mundo. Nuestra Methodología explica como produjimos la información. Nuestro Mapa del sitio le ayuda encontrar su información en nuestra página web. Disfrute! NATUREZA DO MUNDO é o Web site oficial do World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE, Es uma red de páginas Web tratando de temas diferentes relacionados à natureza, la conservação el manejo de recursos naturaleiss, parques nacionais y áreas protegidas. Lea aqui porqué creamos Natureza do Mundo. Nossa Methodología explica como produjimos a informação. Nosso Mapa do sitio le ayuda encontrar sua informação no web site. Desfrute! NATUR DER GANZEN WELT ist, die offiziellen Website der World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE. Es ist ein einheitliches Netzwerk von Web Sites, über Themen wie Natur, Natur-Schutz und natürlichem Ressourcen Quellen Hege. Lesen Sie hier warum wir Natur der ganzen Welt gemacht haben. Un sere Verfahrensweise erklärt, wie wir unsere Informationen produziert würde. Unsere Site Map hilft Ihnen Ihren Weg im Website zu finden. Viel Spaß! NATUUR UIT ALLE STREKEN is, de officiële Website van het World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE. Het is een geïntegreerd Netwerk van websites, over Natuur, Natuurbescherming en het beheer van natuurlijke hulpbronnen. Lesen Sie hier warum wir Natuur uit alle Streken gemacht haben. Onze pagina Methode legt uit, hoe we onze informatie vergaarden. Onze Site Map helpt u op weg door onze website. WICE is a worldwide non-government non-profit organization that contributes to the conservation of nature. While it works on a many issues related to the conservation of nature and the protection of the environment, it is particularly committed to the conservation of national parks and other protected areas.
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