GIS-related studies
A GPS is used to work out exact locations
Botany Department GIS-related research
The main lines of research using GIS (geographical information systems) investigate factors affecting forest structure, composition and biodiversity in both tropical and sub-tropical environments.
We use GIS techniques to model and map both present day and historical edaphic, ecological and taxonomic data.
Other GIS-related projects at the Natural History Museum
GIS is used in a number of inter-disciplinary projects based in all of the earth and life science departments.
The projects involve assessing organismal and ecological diversity, including:
- investigating the geostatistical relationships between extinction events in both palaeontological and historical botanical data
- satellite data analysis of vegetation
- species modelling predictions using geostatistical and GIS techniques
Recent research has involved developing techniques for the effective incorporation of geo-referencing information from specimens.