Refuge GAP is a decision support system designed to explore biodiversity and ancillary information at National Wildlife Refuges in the State of Wyoming.
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.
Refuge GAP, a GAP decision support system for refuge planning [http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/Bulletins/7/RGAGDSSRP.htm].
http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/wbn/refuge/ (No Longer Available)
Biodiversity Conservation
Fish And Wildlife Management
Land Use Planning
Alternative Evaluation
Suitability Assessment
Conservation Of Biodiversity
Landscape Analysis And Modeling
Management Process Modeling
Population Dispersal
Population Viability
Condition Analysis And Assessment
Evaluation Criteria Specification
Rank Alternatives
Risk Analysis
Specify Criterion Weight
Trend Analysis
Visualization
Criterion Weighting Methods
Multi-Attribute Combination Methods
Data Management
GIS Analysis Integration
GIS Display Integration
Visualization
Biophysical Process
Management Process
Patch Extent
Regional Extent
Subregional Extent
Individual Object
Forest Fragmentation
Species Distribution
Species Diversity
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Windows 95/98
Windows NT
Arcview
Custom ArcView 3.x project, with Spatial Analyst extension
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Free
Prototype Being Applied
Spatial Data And Visualization Center, University Of Wyoming
National Commission On Science For Sustainable Forestry
Margo Herdendorf
Software Tools And Models - All
Spatial Decision Support Systems
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Alternative Ranking, Decision Making
Condition Analysis And Assessment
Visualization
Spatial Decision Support Systems
Evaluative Models
Graphical Ontology Browser
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