Tools

Here are some links to tools that our lab has been developing.

MGET: Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools — by Jason Roberts — last modified 2008-09-09 12:43

Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET), also known as the GeoEco Python package, is an open source geoprocessing toolbox designed for coastal and marine researchers and GIS analysts who work with spatially-explicit ecological and oceanographic data in scientific or management workflows. MGET includes over 150 tools useful for a variety of tasks, such as converting oceanographic data to ArcGIS formats, identifying fronts in sea surface temperature images, fitting and evaluating statistical models such as GAMs and GLMs by automatically interfacing ArcGIS with the R statistics program, analyzing coral reef connectivity by simulating hydrodynamic larval dispersal, and building grids that summarize fishing effort, CPUE and other statistics. Currently under development are tools for identifying rings and eddy cores in sea surface height images, for analyzing connectivity networks, for estimating fishing effort when no effort data are available, for predicting hard bottom habitat from coarse grain bathymetry, and much more.

HabMod: Habitat Modeling Toolbox — by Ben Best — last modified 2008-09-02 13:07

Formerly called ArcRstats, this toolbox produces multivariate habitat prediction rasters using ArcGIS and the open-source R statistical package for implementing classification and regression (CART), generalized linear models (GLM) and generalized additive models (GAM). Most of this functionality has now been incorporated into MGET, and all future development will occur there. We recommend you download MGET instead, unless you already use ArcRstats or HabMod and need to obtain another copy.

ConnMod: Connectivity Modeling Toolbox — by Ben Best — last modified 2008-09-02 13:29

This ArcGIS toolbox allows for creation of a network connecting patches of habitat using a TIN and graph-theoretic algorithms from the NetworkX Python package. This functionality has not been incorporated into MGET yet but may be in the future.

Marine Ecosystem-Based Management Tool Innovation Fund — by Ben Best — last modified 2007-06-13 13:49

Get funding for developing your own tools! We are overseeing a two year funding initiative by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to stimulate the development and dissemination of creative software tools for Marine Ecosystem-Based Management.