Species Mapping Tools for the IUCN Red List
Welcome. This wiki is for the use of those involved in creating species range maps for the IUCN red list.
Here is presentation which provides an overview of Red List mapping standards and best practices including standard attribute data.
It also provides a methodology on calculating metrics such as extent of occurrence (EOO) as well as area of occupancy (AOO).
This front page will contain progress updates.
1. ARCGIS SCRIPTS AND TOOLS: Python scripts and geoprocessing tools to run in ArcGIS
(For the following tools, you need all files in the FTP link)
Species Mapping Tools for ArcGIS 9.x
Species Mapping Tools for ArcGIS10 (Documentation)
Ecoregion Tools for ArcGIS10 (Documentation)
RedList Tools for ArcGIS10 (Documentation)
2. GOOGLE MAPS: How to create species distribution maps in Google maps or Google earth.
How to map species distribution polygons in Google maps
How to create polygons in Google Earth
3. SPECIES MAPPING RESOURCES
Polygon attributes
Point locality data attributes
Empty point and polygon shapefiles with attribute fields (zip file for download)
Empty Hydroshed (inlcuding subsets for regions) shapefiles with attribute fields (zip file for download)
Base data layers
GeoCAT : A new web based tool from KEW that performs extent of occurrence (EOO) and area of occupancy (AOO) analysis.
4. ADD-ONS, currently developed using VBA, you need to install VBA resources for ArcGIS Desktop and a VBA license
Mapbatchers (updated: ver_RL and ver_Draft)
Speciesbrowser
(Documentation for the above)
5. Mapping standards for freshwater species
6. General best practice advice for species data
7. FAQs
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Links and info about opensource GIS e.g. GDAL
Other useful links
Comments (4)
pcav said
at 9:42 pm on Jun 5, 2011
Why not having the same tools also for free software, especially QuantumGIS? Many people do not have Arc*
yichuan.shi said
at 9:49 pm on Jun 5, 2011
Hi pcav, we'd love to have the same set of tools for open source GIS such as QuantumGIS, however, we don't have the resource to do so. In addition, these tools are mainly developed for people working for the IUCN redlist who we give ArcGIS to.
Martin Hamilton said
at 4:52 am on Sep 27, 2012
Having trouble accessing the resources.
ISA Server: extended error message :
200 Type set to I.
200 PORT command successful.
550 /GIS_Resources/speciesmappingtools_forArcGIS10/: The system cannot find the path specified.
Adrian Hughes said
at 1:02 am on Oct 2, 2012
despite this message you should still be able to click on a filename to download
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