Zonation is a spatial conservation prioritization framework for large-scale conservation planning. It identifies areas, or landscapes, important for retaining high habitat quality and connectivity for multiple biodiversity features (eg. species), providing a quantitative method for enhancing species' long term persistence.
Essentially, this software is a decision support tool for all non-commercial parties working on conservation issues. As Zonation operates on large grids, it provides a direct link between GIS, statistical distribution modeling and spatial conservation prioritization.
This repository contains the computational core of Zonation software. It does not contain the graphical user interface (GUI) components.
You can dowload the latest stable release installers from the CBIG website http://cbig.it.helsinki.fi
For instructions on how to compile Zonation core on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04), please see this repository.
Zonation computational core (zig4) is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).
Zonation computational core © 2011-2014 Conservation Biology Informatics Group © 2004-2011 Atte Moilanen
Zonation computational core is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Do not use this software if you disagree with the disclaimer or conditions of use. Even though the Zonation software has been done with the best of intentions, it is quite beyond one small research group to ensure its correct operation under all operating systems and environments. Anticipating all potential combinations of erroneous input has not been possible. Therefore, use the software with care and make an effort to understand how the inputs connect to outputs.
Zonation uses the following libraries:
- boost (http://www.boost.org)
- FFTW (http://www.fftw.org). We also used
- GDAL (http://www.gdal.org)
- Qt (http://qt-project.org)
- Qwt (http://qwt.sourceforge.net)
Various versions of GCC, the GNU compiler collection (http://gcc.gnu.org) were used as well.
These free open source software projects are greatly acknowledged!