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20410291 TECNICHE CARTOGRAFICHE E GIS NELLE APPLICAZIONI ECOLOGICHE in Ecosystems Biodiversity and Management LM-6 CARBONI MARTA, Malavasi Marco
(syllabus)
Theory - Intro to spatial ecology: from spatial patterns to ecological processes - GIS: functions, geographical approach and modeling of reality - Types of GIS software: open source and proprietary software - Data models: vectorial (points, lines and polygons) and raster (pixel) - Principles and methods in remote sensing: electromagnetic reflectance, remote sensed image resolution, active and passive sensors, remote sensing platforms
Practicals (software: GIS and R) - Visualization of geographical objects(features) on a map - Preparation of plant and animal maps - Preparation and analysis of environmental maps (land use/land cover, habitat maps, photosynthetic activity, etc.) in time and in space - Principles and methods of cartographic extraction of bio-environmental features - Introduction to Species Distribution Modeling (SDM)
(reference books)
Materials, PDFs of lecture slides and scripts are made available during the course
Suggested textbooks: - Geographic Information Systems in Ecology (Methods in Ecology), Carol A. Johnston, Blackwell Scientific Edition, Malden, MA, 1998, p. 239. - An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping, Chris Brunsdon and Lex Comber, SAGE Publications Ltd; 2015, p. 360
Office hours are by appointment via email: marta.carboni@uniroma3.it
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