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Here are some notes for the forthcoming GIS mapping and analysis module

James Forester may drop in and give us some details. He works on "Mechanistic movement models: Tracking animals through space and time."

http://spatialecology.com/

GRASS open source mapping tool

ArcGIS commercial software or free tool

spatial krigeing: Model based interpolation

state DNRs have many GIS data sets

NLCD national land cover database

LANDsat data 30m pixels. 6 bands

Aster, 12 bands, at different

Look up Mary Tinery's oak tree dispersal data

Ecological sensing.

check this paper

Automated Optical Sampling of Vegetation Water Content at Sky Oaks Biological Field Station (GIF file)

Lots of Data from that project, temp, solar, motion, and time lapse cams.

We should apply to NSF

. Letter of intent Aug 08