Press Release - July 23 2004
As the peak natural resource management body in the Wimmera
region the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority (WCMA) has
responsibility for planning and implementing programs that
seek to address environmental degradation and improve land
management. Two key components to this work include the classification
of key native vegetation areas and the identification of opportunities
for enhancement of these assets.
Spatial Vision has been commissioned by the Wimmera Catchment
Management Authority to develop a GIS-based toolbox that will
assist CMA staff to routinely run two key remnant vegetation
analyses.
The first of the tools to be developed will aim to classify
and prioritise remnant vegetation areas based on a user-defined
rule set. The second tool will identify and prioritise revegetation
opportunities using rule sets provided by regional land managers.
The toolbox will be designed in a modular fashion to enable
future tool additions and will be fully integrated into the
CMA's ESRI ArcGIS environment.
This commission is indicative of Spatial Vision’s position
as a leading developer of GIS-based tool sets for use in biodiversity
and land management activities. Previous developments include
a Fox Predation Risk Calculator that provides an accumulative
biodiversity risk index for pest managers, and a River Reach
Sampling Strategy Tool that is assisting in the identification
of sampling locations as part of river reach condition assessments.
For more information about this project, please contact:
Milos Pelikan
ph (03) 9691 3000
email info@spatialvision.com.au
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