[RS-ecology] next AniMove summer school

[Martin Wegmann]

Dear all,

our next AniMove summerschool on learning how to analyze animal movement 
data in conjunction with remote sensing data for ecological application 
is announced: http://animove.org/courses/2017-mpi/

it will take place at the MPI close to Lake Konstanz, Germany from 
August 27th to September 9th, 2017.

*about AniMove*: Animal Movement Analysis summer school is offered as a 
two-week professional training course, that targets students, 
researchers and conservation practitioners that have collected animal 
relocation data and want to learn how to analyze these data. Course 
participants will have the opportunity to apply learned techniques to 
their own data during the course.

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 non-profit 
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).

regards, Martin






-- 
Dr. Martin Wegmann

University of Wuerzburg
Institute of Geography
Department of Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Research
Am Hubland
Oswald Kuelpe Weg 86
97074 Wuerzburg, Germany

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)

Phone:  +49-(0)931-31 83446
Email:  martin.wegmann at uni-wuerzburg.de

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