Refuge GAP

Refuge GAP is a decision support system designed to explore biodiversity and ancillary information at National Wildlife Refuges in the State of Wyoming.

Overview

The US Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program (GAP) and the Wyoming Gap Analysis program at the University of Wyoming's Spatial Data and Visualization Center developed the Refuge GAP decision support system to assist US Fish and Wildlife Service managers with land prioritization processes. The system uses GAP and other biological data in a desktop GIS environment to show where different species occur, or are predicted to occur, within the state. The user can look at information for a particular site (for impact analyses), an individual wildlife refuge, or information for the entire state. Refuge GAP uses GAP data to look at general and regional patterns and trends for selected species. Refuge GAP's regional analysis module is designed to mirror the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Land Acquisition Priority System for significant community biodiversity targets. This is a four-step process which prompts the user to assign ranks of importance to variables such as significance to biodiversity protection, degree of alteration, management considerations (land use) and species of concern. The user is taken through a series of menus which display data available for input variables and prompts for the input of weights to each of the variables. Once all the variables have been weighted, they are combined in a GIS analytical process, the result of which is a map, color-coded to depict areas which meet the specified criteria for land acquisition.

Source Of Description

Refuge GAP, a GAP decision support system for refuge planning [http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/Bulletins/7/RGAGDSSRP.htm].

URL

http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/wbn/refuge/ (No Longer Available)

For Application Domains

Biodiversity Conservation

Fish And Wildlife Management

Land Use Planning

Decision Problem Types Targeted

Alternative Evaluation

Suitability Assessment

Domain Knowledge Modeling Area

Conservation Of Biodiversity

Landscape Analysis And Modeling

Management Process Modeling

Population Dispersal

Population Viability

Planning And Decision Process Phases/Steps Served

Condition Analysis And Assessment

Evaluation Criteria Specification

Rank Alternatives

Risk Analysis

Specify Criterion Weight

Trend Analysis

Visualization

Methods And Techniques Implemented

Criterion Weighting Methods

Multi-Attribute Combination Methods

Systems Functional Components

Data Management

GIS Analysis Integration

GIS Display Integration

Visualization

Accepts Data Of Process Types

Biophysical Process

Management Process

Analysis Extent

Patch Extent

Regional Extent

Subregional Extent

Analysis Unit

Individual Object

Indicators Used

Forest Fragmentation

Species Distribution

Species Diversity

Supports Analysis Of Interdisciplinary Interactions

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Platform

Windows 95/98

Windows NT

Software Required

Arcview

Description Of System Components

Custom ArcView 3.x project, with Spatial Analyst extension

Online Download Available

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Developer Assistance Needed For Installation/Configuration

False ^^ Http://Www.W3.Org/2001/Xmlschema#Boolean

Cost

Free

Development Status

Prototype Being Applied

Tool Maker

Spatial Data And Visualization Center, University Of Wyoming

Information Source

National Commission On Science For Sustainable Forestry

Contact Person

Margo Herdendorf

Parent Categories

Software Tools And Models - All

Spatial Decision Support Systems

Last Updated

2009-09-09T11:31:27.165-08:00 ^^ http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime

Decision Process Activity Types Served

Alternative Ranking, Decision Making

Condition Analysis And Assessment

Visualization

Software Type

Spatial Decision Support Systems

Model Type

Evaluative Models

Graphical Ontology Browser

  • Click on a node to jump to the content of that node
  • Pan to see the rest of the graph
  • Scroll the mousewheel up and down to zoom in and out
  • Rearrange the nodes in the graph by dragging a node to a different position

References

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