Project Description:
←Older revision
Revision as of 05:24, 24 February 2014
Line 13:
Line 13:
|-
|-
|colspan="2"|
|colspan="2"|
-
==Project Description
/Abstract
==
+
==Project Description==
-
*
Place short description of
project
or notes regarding
this
project
+
*
A
project
notebook for use of Maximum Entropy Species Distribution Modelling within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Based in part on a document produced by R. Todd Jobe [http://www.unc.edu/~toddjobe/publications.php] and Benjamin Zank, "Modelling species distributions for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park using Maxent."
+
+
==Introduction==
+
The goal of
this
document is to provide help for managers and researchers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) in modelling species distributions using maximum entropy (maxent) methods. It provides a reference for the maxent software (Phillips and Dudik 2008): the standard for modelling species distributions. Below is a brief background on maxent and the motivation for its use in GRSM. In the sections following we provide help for: getting the software, preparing data for use in the model, running the model, and creating a binary range map from the model.
+
+
This document is designed to supplement, not replace the help files contained in the maxent software. It is strongly recommended that users also read (Phillips et al. 2006), (Phillips and Dudik 2008), and the tutorial.doc, which is packaged with the maxent software. Also, this document is structured for users working on a Windows system that has an installation of ArcGIS (ESRI 2006), though maxent can be run equally well on other operating systems (2) and with other GIS software.
+
+
==Pertinent Links==
* Information concerning maximum entropy species distribution modeling in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
* Information concerning maximum entropy species distribution modeling in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Line 25:
Line 32:
*Google Group for MaxEnt: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maxent
*Google Group for MaxEnt: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maxent
+
*Download MaxEnt Software and documentation: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/maxent/
+
*Park Service Spatial Data Access: https://irma.nps.gov/App/Reference/Search?SearchType=N
==Notes==
==Notes==