[RS-ecology] 2016 – MPI | AniMove

[Martin Wegmann]

Dear all,


we are happy to announce that the AniMove summerschool will take place in 
September 2016 in Germany at the Lake Konstanz.

Animal movement is critical for maintenance of ecosystem services and 
biodiversity. The study of complex movement patterns and of the factors that 
control such patterns is essential to inform conservation research and 
environmental management. Technological advances have greatly increased our 
ability to track, study, and manage animal movements. But analyzing and 
contextualizing vast amounts of tracking data can present scientific, 
computational, and technical challenges that require scientists and 
practitioners to master new skills from a wide range of computational 
disciplines.

AniMove, a collective of international researchers with extensive experience 
in these topics, teaches a two-week intensive training course for studying 
animal movement. This two-week course focuses on interdisciplinary approaches 
linking animal movement with environmental factors to address challenging 
theoretical and applied questions in conservation biology. To achieve this, 
participants will acquire significant skills in computational ecology, 
movement data pre-processing and analysis, modeling, remote sensing and 
Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Application open until beginning of March.

- See more at: http://animove.org/courses/2016-mpi

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Dr. Martin Wegmann

Department of Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Research
University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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German Aerospace Center (DLR)
German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)

Phone:  +49-(0)931-31-83446

url: http://www.remote-sensing.uni-wuerzburg.de
url: http://www.remote-sensing.eu

Associate Editor

*Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation*