A short demo of GeoCAT - a tool to support Red List conservation assessments.

1. Supporting Red List assessments with
GeoCAT
Justin Moat & Steven Bachman / GIS Unit - RBG Kew / GIS@kew.org / @KewGIS

2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
A beautiful garden - and we also do science...

3. Global seed bank –
10% banked so far
IUCN Sampled Red List Index – CBD 2010
The Kew ‘naming machine’
Hundreds of new species described every
year - thousands named

5. The Red list –
Small Very small
Restricted
Population population and Quantitative
geographic
reduction size and restricted analysis
range
decline population
Quantitative thresholds

6. The Red List is biased towards better known groups...
Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)

7. Plants on
the Red list
-2011

8. Introducing GeoCAT -

9. Video
http://vimeo.com/22739331

10. Why we developed GeoCAT:
- Geospatial aspects of assessments were challenging
- GIS - steep learning curve
- Dependence on proprietary software
- Difficulty with data gathering and processing
- Lack of transparency
- Isolated working practices – no collaboration
- Difficult to replicate analysis
- Few tools available - slow progress with Red Listing

11. The Red List community needs:
- rapid analysis
- repeatable analysis – audit trail
- data driven - from multiple sources
- collaborative research and analysis
- powerful, but easy to use tools
- Open! and free to use

12. check it out... www.geocat.kew.org
Screencast demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVHLQy8F_0

13. Future development...
- Assessments in the cloud
- More data sources e.g. iNaturalist, Scratchpads,
BRAHMS
- Integration with IUCN Red List systems
- Batch processing
- Species distribution models
- More spatial queries
- Better integration with GBIF e.g. error feedback

14. Already being used worldwide
Recently used in South Korea with the IUCN Korean Plant Specialist Group
... and IUCN IndoChina plants assessment with Missouri Botanic Garden

15. Created and supported by:
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