Workshops
Conference and Workshop on Modeling Land-Use Land-Cover Change and Species Distribution
January 11-13, 2005
The Eco-Informatics Centre recently organized a Conference and Workshop on Modeling Land-Use Land-Cover Change and Species Distribution in Bangalore from January 11-13, 2005.
This intensive workshop brought together individuals and agencies active in ecological research, land-use planning, and conservation in India to provide an exchange of ideas and training on the technical aspects of land-use change and habitat modeling. The resource people included Prof. K. N. Ganeshaiah, ATREE and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dr. J. Krishnaswamy, ATREE, Dr. Shaily Menon, Grand Valley State University, Dr. Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr, Clark University and Dr. M. Irfan Ullah, ATREE.
- Reasons for LUCC models
- Uses of LUCC models
- Mechanics of LUCC models
- Evaluation of LUCC models
- Reasons to compare maps
- Measures of Quantity and Location for pattern recognition
- Comparisons between two Categorical variables
- Comparisons between Real variables and Boolean variables
- Importance of Scale
- Consideration of Error
Concepts covered under species distribution modeling
- Ecological niche concept
- Biodiversity informatics
- Ecological niche modeling using genetic algorithms and ENFA (Ecological Niche Factor Analysis)
- Errors (overprediction or commission, underprediction or omission)
- Habitat suitability maps
- Ecogeographical variables
- Marginality and Tolerance factors
- Applications of species distribution modeliny
Resource Persons
- Dr. Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr.
- Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy
- Dr. Mohammed Irfan Ullah
- Dr. Shaily Menon
- Dr. K.N.Ganeshaiah