01234nas a2200169   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260009200043653002200135653000800157653001900165653002200184100001600206245008700222300000900309520074600318       2014                            d  c06/2014bFoundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL)aPondicherry10acapacity building10aGIS10aremote sensing10athematic training1 aR.S. Bhalla00aThematic training on GIS and remote sensing for conservation research and planning  a65pp3 a<p>The project has trained over a hundred professionals and researchers active in the field of conservation and ecology in the Western Ghats in the use of spatially explicit tools. Materials prepared for the workshops are available on-line and include tutorials, quizzes and sample datasets.<br />Moving on from basic use of GIS and remote sensing, this tranche of courses dealt with applications in spatial analysis, landscape ecology and processing large datasets for hydrology and land-cover mapping and change. <br />This project is being followed up by a multi-institutional project which will offer short accredited courses in quantitative techniques required by researchers and practitioners in wildlife sciences and conservation.</p>