Analytical Tools
User Guide 3 Begin at the Atlas of Living Australia homepage. Select Search & analyse, then choose Spatial analysis (Spatial Portal). Se...
Thu, 25 Jul, 2019 at 12:07 PM
User Guide 7 Begin at the Atlas of Living Australia homepage. Select the Spatial analysis (Spatial Portal) option under Search & analyse. C...
Thu, 25 Jul, 2019 at 2:11 PM
If you want to find out what biologically related data is within a defined area, then area reports in the Spatial Portal can deliver. An area can be de...
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 at 4:34 PM
If you want to find the closest named location (a gazetteer location) to any point within the Australian region, you can simply click on the map in the Spat...
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 at 11:51 AM
This simple tool lets you interactively examine the environmental values at two or more points. You click on two or more points on the map and then click ...
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 at 4:47 PM
The term ‘sampling’ comes from the use of the locations of species records to sample the values of any of the environmental and contextual layers available ...
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 at 4:51 PM
Filtering is subsetting the Atlas occurrence record data using the facets (attributes of records that are indexed in our database) available via ‘Add to map...
Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 at 11:28 AM
A scatterplot is an X-Y graph of the sampled values of a pair of environmental variables from a set of species (or genus etc.) locations. Each point on...
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 at 5:01 PM
Tabulation, or more accurately, cross-tabulation is the direct counterpart of scatterplots for layers that have class rather than numeric values. In the cas...
Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 at 11:25 AM
This is the area equivalent to compare points. You select or generate two areas and either a taxa, a lifeform or a species list on which to base the compari...
Fri, 14 Dec, 2018 at 5:10 PM