Habitat

Spatial analyse tool for ecological assessment

HABITAT is spatial analysis tool to support the development of water management plans. Deltares uses

the tool to analyse for example the  effects of climate change on nature and support the development of adapatation strategies. The tool is especially designed for ecological assessment to analyse the availability and quality of habitats for individual or groups of species. It is also usefull for other spatial analysis where grid operations are needed like flood risk maps or damages to agriculture or urban areas in case of floods and droughts. HABITAT has been built around PCRaster, a software package responsible for making the map-calculations and incorporated in the user interface of DelftShell.
HABITAT exists of the software tool and an ecological knowledge base with effect relations on environmental conditions and ecology. We follow the Dare to Share principle which means that the software tool is free of use and we encourage HABITAT users to share their knowledge through the habitat-wiki in the ecological knowledge base.