LANDISVIEW: A
Visualization & Analytical Tool by KEL, Texas A&M University
Brief
Overview
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LANDISVIEW is a tool,
developed at the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory at Texas
A&M University, to visualize and animate LANDIS output maps
(8-bit/16-bit ERDAS GIS format). It can also convert LANDIS
output maps into ASCII and batch files.
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LANDISVIEW provides two
major functions:
1) File Viewer: Files can be
viewed sequentially and an output can be generated as a
movie file or as an image file.
2) File converter: It will
convert the loaded files for compatibility with 3rd
party software, such as FRAGSTATS.
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Some available features of
LANDISVIEW include:
1) Display cell coordinates and
values.
2) Apply user-defined color
palette to visualize files.
3) Save maps as pictures and
animations as video files (*.avi).
4) Convert ERDAS files into ASCII
grids for compatibility with Fragstats, a widely used
spatial analysis tool.
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There are over 350 users
(from over 30 countries), have downloaded, tested or
used LANDISVIEW for their work.
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The Principal Investigator of the
Texas A&M University LANDIS-II application project:
Dr. Robert Coulson. The
LANDISVIEW developing team includes: Dr. Andrew Birt,
Dr. Lei Wang, and Dr. Weimin Xi.
Download LANDISVIEW Beta 1.0
(User Guide Beta 1.0 included)
Acknowledgements
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Funding for the development of
LANDISVIEW has been provided by the Ecology, Biology
and Management of Bark Beetles and Invasive Forest Insects
of Southern Conifers Unit, the USDA Forest Service Southern
Research Station.
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Valuable contributions to the
development of LANDISVIEW were made by Dr. John
Waldron of University of West Florida.
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Many individuals provided
valuable feedback during the LANDIS-II developer meeting
held at University of Wisconsin-Madison, including Eric
Gustafson (USFS), David J. Mladenoff (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), Robert Scheller (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), Jimm Domingo (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), Jordan Muss (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), Brian Sturtevant (USFS), Brian Miranda (USFS),
Chonggang Xu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
Inga La Puma (Rutgers University), Dean Anderson (USFS),
Doug Shinneman (TNC), Hong Jiang (Conservation Biology
Institute) and James Strittholt (Conservation Biology
Institute).
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LANDISVIEW uses a 3rd
party library (GDAL) for opening LANDIS files. We thank the
GDAL team, especially Frank Warmerdam, for developing this
open source library.
For further information about LANDISVIEW development,
contact Weimin Xi
(xi@tamu.edu).
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