Environmental models and modeling frameworks typically do not represent geographic information in a way that enables the direct translation of this information between geographic information systems (GIS) and the model or modeling framework. Parameters of the characteristics of geographic features are processed as part of a model’s mathematical solution and are thus explicitly represented in th...

Li Zheng 1, Manzhu Yu 2, Mengxiao Song 3, Anthony Stefanidis 2, Zheng Ji 3,4,* and Chaowei Yang 2 1 School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China; [email protected] 2 Department of Geography and GeoInformation Sciences, College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA; [email protected] (M.Y.); [email protected] (A.S.); [email protected] (C.Y.) 3 School of...

The sustainable management of forest resources can only be achieved through a well-organized road network designed with the optimal spatial planning and the minimum environmental impacts. This paper describes the spatial layout mapping for the optimal forest road network and the environmental impacts evaluation that are caused to the natural environment based on the multicriteria evaluation (MC...

The Landscape Genetics GIS Toolbox contains tools that run in the Geographic Information System software, ArcGIS(®), to map genetic landscapes and to summarize multiple genetic landscapes as average and variance surfaces. These tools can be used to visualize the distribution of genetic diversity across geographic space and to study associations between patterns of genetic diversity and geograph...

The Landscape Genetics GIS Toolbox contains tools that run in the Geographic Information System software, ArcGIS , to map genetic landscapes and to summarize multiple genetic landscapes as average and variance surfaces. These tools can be used to visualize the distribution of genetic diversity across geographic space and to study associations between patterns of genetic diversity and geographic...