Guided Search: Data collection

Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET), also known as the GeoEco Python package, is an open source geoprocessing toolbox designed for coastal and marine researchers and GIS analysts who work with spatially-explicit ecological and oceanographic data in scientific or management workflows.

The Miradi software tool helps conservation practitioners implement the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Miradi provides an easy-to-use, interview-style interface that walks a project team through each step of the process of designing, managing and monitoring their project according to the best practice standards established and tested by the world's major conservation organizations.

EngagingPlans enables planners to launch and maintain interactive, place-based public involvement websites for gathering stakeholder feedback and sharing updates to the community.

SimCLIM is an “open-framework” modelling system that can be customised, maintained and applied by users for the purpose of examining impacts and adaptations to climate variability and change, including extreme climatic events.

Mercury is a Web-based system to search for metadata and retrieve associated data. Mercury incorporates a number of important features. Mercury * Invokes a new paradigm for managing dynamic distributed scientific data and metadata * Provide a single portal to information contained in disparate data management systems * Provide free text, fielded, spatial, and temporal search capabilities * Puts control in the hands of investigators or other data providers * Has a very light touch (i.e., is inexpensive to implement) * Is implemented using Internet standards, including XML * Supports international metadata standards, including FGDC, Dublin-Core, EML, ISO-19115 * Is compatible with Internet search engines * Is based on a combination of open source tools and ORNL-developed software The new Mercury system is based on open source and Service Oriented Architecture and provides multiple search services including: RSS, Geo-RSS, OpenSearch, Web Services and JSR-168 Portlets.

The Biogeography Branch's Sampling Design Tool for ArcGIS provides a means to effectively develop sampling strategies in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. The tool was produced as part of an iterative process of sampling design development, whereby existing data informs new design decisions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) is developing e-Estuary, a decision-support system for coastal management. E-Estuary has three elements: an estuarine geo-referenced relational database, associated estuarine and watershed GIS coverages, and tools to support decision-making.

Desktop GARP is a software package for biodiversity and ecologic research that allows the user to predict and analyze wild species distributions. GARP is a genetic algorithm that creates ecological niche models for species.

Developed by the National Coral Reef Institute, Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe) is Windows-based software (PC use only) that provides a tool for the determination of coral and substrate cover using the random point count method on transect photographs.

The Watershed Information System (WISE) is a comprehensive system to manage, access, and analyze large amounts of water resources data. Ten integrated modules access this information rapidly to conduct complex watershed analyses.