The Role of GIS in Wildlife Research and Conservation
Monitoring and studying wildlife habitats has long been a key focus within GIS.
Monitoring and studying wildlife habitats has long been a key focus within GIS.
NASA has partnered with the Jane Goodall Institute to provide satellite imagery and the analysis needed to understand where habitat loss is the most extreme to protect chimpanzees in the wild.
Dr. David M. Theobald is a Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado who has been working with GIS since the middle 1980s in the areas of planning, conservation GIS, and landscape ecology.