Niche Vlaanderen python package

NICHE Vlaanderen (Nature Impact Assessment of Changes in Hydro-Ecological Systems) is a hydro-ecological model that predicts the potential occurrence of (ground)water-dependent vegetation types in an area based on information about the (abiotic) site conditions. NICHE Vlaanderen can be used to evaluate the impact of changes in the water management to groundwater-dependent vegetation.

The model is based on a number of location factors that are important for the vegetation: soil type, hydrology, nutrient availability and acidity. Based on calculated abiotic properties of the location NICHE Vlaanderen determines whether certain vegetation types can develop. An additional flooding module allows the user to test whether the predicted vegetations are compatible with a particular flooding regime.

This project is a redevelopment of an existing ArcGIS plugin in Python, without external non-open source dependencies.

Date ( Creation): 2018-02-27

Date ( Revision): 2018-10-26

Status: On going / operational

Author

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) - Peter Desmet

Author

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) - Damiano Oldoni

Author

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) - Stijn Van Hoey

Custodian

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) - Johan Van de Wauw

Keywords: modelling

Keywords: habitat mapping

Keywords: python

Keywords: environmental

Keywords: hydrology

Keywords: vegetation

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: https://github.com/inbo/niche_vlaanderen/blob/master/LICENSE

OnLine resource: Niche Vlaanderen on Github (
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OnLine resource: Niche Vlaanderen on Zenodo (
DOI
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OnLine resource: Package website (
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Topic Category: Species distribution

Service Category: data analysis

Service Category: data processing

Service Language: eng

Service TRL: TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Service Helpdesk: https://github.com/inbo/niche_vlaanderen

Service Training: https://inbo.github.io/niche_vlaanderen/tutorials.html

Service User Manual: https://inbo.github.io/niche_vlaanderen/lowlevel.html

Metadata

File identifier: 6d51d31b-89b7-4114-b7bd-84b8342d1415 XML

Metadata language: en

Hierarchy level: Service

Metadata Schema Version: 1.1

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