(UPDATE: Ecotrust has asked me to remove material related to the Calzone and Gulf Tool.  Please feel free to contact Ecotrust directly to find out more about those tools)

I have been working on a new decision support tool for Ecotrust over the last few months, so today I decided to make some screen casts (with audio!) of some of our work.

Cal-Zone - Web based DST based on Marxan / Marzone for helping evaluate site selection of marine protected areas. Marxan / Marzone results are generated and stored in PostGIS for display via OpenLayers. New windowing functionality introduced to allow for future enhancements such as multi-run comparisons and use of region of interest tools for site selection.

http://www.reprojected.com/demo/cal-zone-demo.html

Gulf Tool - Web based DST based around scenario development for Gulf of Mexico fisheries. Uses a Chameleon based frontend, Mapserver on the backend and all data storage and queries through PostGIS. GMT is used for graphing.

http://www.reprojected.com/demo/gulf-demo.html

Just a snapshot into some of the DST development we are undertaking and very excited about. Hope you enjoy…

I have posted a new presentation on Open Source GIS that I gave on Feb 21st 2007 at Portland State University. Included is an audio recording of the talk, a ppt presentation, and a flash demo of doing some simple GRASS interaction.

http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/presentations/

Enjoy!

Aaron

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Enjoy

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