3 Ways GIS Tools Can Help Biodiversity Conservation
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) had grown to be an indispensable technology in biodiversity research. Any GIS software can support spatial data manipulation, and this analysis is essential to understand species spatial and temporal patterns. Data collection in ecology had rapidly increased in the past few years, enabling the expansion of knowledge in this discipline to answer actual species extinction rates, climate change crises and habitat modification on-site in record time.
And consequently, storage and management of big databases had become a challenge that needs a response from several institutions, private and public. The development and implementation of GIS had answered many of these obstacles and continues to supply solutions to the overwhelming task that is to understand life in space.
That said, GIS is based on image processing techniques that can be developed to derive information from captured satellite data. GIS outputs from environmental change reflected from these images are fundamental for evidence-based conservation. In this article, I summarize how GIS can be helpful and used for mapping biodiversity, monitoring changes in biodiversity and modelling biodiversity data for future reference.
1. Biodiversity mapping
