Università Roma Tre

Theory
- Intro to spatial ecology and cartography
- 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
- Species distributions and biodiversity mapping


Practicals (software: QGIS 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)

Materials, PDFs of lecture slides and scripts are made available during the course

Software:
QGIS.org, 2022. QGIS Geographic Information System. QGIS Association. http://www.qgis.org
R Core Team (2014). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/.

Office hours by appointment via email: marta.carboni@uniroma3.it