Foothills Research Institute

Tools

 

FRImap: frimap.foothillsri.ca

FRImap a new open-source Internet mapping application that is the result of regional partnerships and collaboration between the FRI, GeoConnections, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (ASRD), Jasper National Park (JNP), Hinton Wood Products (A division of West Fraser Mills Ltd.), and the Town of Hinton.

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NEPTUNE | neptune.foothillsri.ca

NEPTUNE (Novel Emulation Planning Tool for Understanding Natural Events) was originally created as part of the FRI Natural Disturbance Program to help understand how past, present, and future disturbance designs relate to historical natural disturbance patterns on the landscape. The system was originally developed as an ESRI based application and is currently being migrated to the FRImap framework.

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OnFire | onfire.foothillsri.ca

OnFire is an annotated, online database of disturbance research studies relevant to the province of Alberta. It is intended to provide a universal starting point for determining the breadth and depth of pre-industrial coarse-filter knowledge of disturbance patterns for local land use, parks, certification, and forest management planning.

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Mountain Pine Beetle Decision Support Tool | mpbdst.foothillsri.ca

The Mountain Pine Beetle Decision Support Tool (MPBDST) is designed to help you assess the impacts of different levels of MPB infestation, and various silviculture interventions, on post-attack stand development.

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Dynamic Regeneration of Grizzly Bear Food Model

The value of a spatial habitat model to landscape planners lies in its ability to predict the spatial distribution of some habitat attribute – in this case, grizzly bear food – in areas where actual empirical data is lacking. This new GIS based tool developed by the Foothills Research Institute Grizzly Bear Program regenerates the spatial...

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