NCEAS Scientific Computing: Scientific Reports and Tutorials
Scientific and technical reports, tutorials, and Web sites of interest to NCEAS researchers and ecologists. We selected these links because they describe analytical tools or data sources that ecologists will find useful.
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July 2006: Draft Geospatial / GIS Seminar Documents
Proposed Seminar Outline (30 kb PDF)
Proposed List of Seminar Case Studies (20 kb PDF)
Matthew Perry's November 15 DevLunch presentation: Spatial Extensions to Metacat database software (290 kb PDF)November 2007: Open Source Geospatial Software Tools Workshop
Link to GRASS GIS / R Kriging example from UC Davis California Soils Resource Lab Demonstration site
Analytical Software Tools and Operating Systems
Link to NCEAS R Programming Language Resource Center
Link to NCEAS Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Tutorial
Tutorial: Introduction to UNIX Operating System Commands and ProgrammingSAS Users Group Report: An Animated Guide to Basic Parallel Processing (in SAS) (500k pdf)
Mathworks, Incorporated: Getting Started with MATLAB: A tutorial from MATLAB Help System (2 mb pdf)
Spatial Analysis Techniques
Link to Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) Home Page
Link to Spatial Analysis Laboratory at University of Illinois Urbana Home Page
Fortin, Dale, and ver Hoef: Spatial Analysis in Ecology (110 kb PDF)
Some Recent Work in Spatial Analysis for Ecological Data (130 kb PDF)
Urban: Spatial Analysis in Ecology: Mantel's Test (160 kb PDF)
Past NCEAS Workshops
Bayesian modeling introduction (Rick Condit, March 2007) (Notes/ R functions/ R commands)
Tutorials: Digital Geospatial Data and Analysis Concepts
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Remote Sensing Tutorial: VERY GOOD!
Nat Resource Canada Remote Sensing Fundamentals TutorialEcological Research Web Sites: A Sampling
US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network