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A SPATIAL MODELING AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CONSERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Frank W. Davis, David M. Stoms, Allan D. Hollander, Michael J. Bueno, Richard L. Church, W. J. Okin, Ross A. Gerrard

Institute for Computational Earth System Science
and Department of Geography, University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: 805-893-3438

Final Report to IBM Environmental Research Program

Report Date: September 30, 1997

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • PROBLEM STATEMENT
  • The Environmental Issue
  • Goals and Objectives
  • SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS
  • Regional vegetation classification and mapping
  • AVHRR compositing strategy for generating a multi-temporal data set
  • Map-guided classification for the Intermountain Semi-Desert Ecoregion
  • Wildlife habitat modeling
  • Regional conservation planning and reserve design
  • Reserve Design for the Natural Communities Conversation Planning Program
  • Reserve Selection as a Maximal Covering Location Problem
  • Biodiversity Management Area Selection Model for the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project
  • Intermountain Semi-Desert Ecoregion Gap Analysis and Reserve Siting
  • COMPUTATIONAL ADVANCES
  • Regional Vegetation Classification and Mapping
  • Coastal sage scrub classification and conservation assessment
  • Bayesian classifier of communities from species assemblages
  • Wildlife Habitat Modeling
  • Monitoring Environmental Change
  • Reserve Selection Algorithms
  • General Advances
  • Data Cataloging
  • Distribution of Processing Jobs
  • Data Visualization
  • World Wide Web
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • Conclusions and Recommendations for Changes in Approach
  • Regional vegetation mapping
  • Wildlife habitat modeling
  • Monitoring environmental change
  • Regional conservation planning and reserve design
  • Recommendations for Follow-on Research
  • Regional vegetation mapping
  • Wildlife habitat modeling
  • Monitoring environmental change
  • Regional conservation planning and reserve design
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LITERATURE CITED
  • APPENDICES
  • Technical Presentations
  • IBM-ERP Presentations during 1996-1997
  • IBM-ERP Presentations during 1993-1995
  • Visitors to the Biogeography Lab
  • Student Involvement
  • Graduate theses and dissertations
  • Other graduate students
  • Undergraduate training
  • Other Technology Transfer
  • REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

    • IBM-ERP Project Home Page

    Biogeography Lab Home Page

    Email stoms@bren.ucsb.edu