Tools

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

MGET: Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools — by Jason Roberts — last modified 2008-09-02 12:58

Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) is a collection of software tools targeted at coastal and marine researchers and GIS analysts who work with spatially-explicit oceanographic and ecological data in scientific or managerial workflows. The initial MGET releases focus on tools useful in habitat modeling, including tools for processing and sampling remotely-sensed oceanographic data and for creating and evaluating statistical models. Subsequent releases will include more advanced tools presently under development, such as tools for hydrodynamic modeling of larval dispersal, connectivity modeling, and spatially-explicit fishery modeling.

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.