Analytical Tools

What is the use of ‘Points to Grid’?
The occurrence records in the Atlas are points.  Admitted, the accuracy of the location can often mean that the species was seen within a defined area, ...
Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 at 11:37 AM
Generating Points
Why would you want to generate point in the Spatial Portal?  We had a number of users ask us if it was possible to get an average of environmental condi...
Mon, 17 Dec, 2018 at 10:10 AM
Phylogenetic Diversity
In the case of biodiversity, diversity is basically the number of different species present. Phylogenetic diversity is the differences between species in te...
Tue, 18 Dec, 2018 at 9:06 AM
What is classification?
Classification combines a set of environmental layers (not contextual layers) into one new layer that retains most of the information in all the input layer...
Tue, 18 Dec, 2018 at 9:13 AM
What is Prediction?
If you want to find out where a species could occur, you need to use the environment at known species locations. Once you know what environment a species...
Tue, 18 Dec, 2018 at 9:17 AM
What is Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling?
This is a tough one.  GDM or Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling is probably the most complex tool within the Spatial Portal. It is normally used over a...
Tue, 18 Dec, 2018 at 9:26 AM