“GIS – Helping Manage Our World” – The ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) International User Conference (UC) is the biggest GIS (Geographic Information System) event of the year and thousands of people gathered to share their ideas, expertise and practical application of GIS in their organizations. OFI has been successfully utilizing GIS since 2003, the aim being to apply an integrated conservation and development approach to the protection of Tanjung Puting National Park (TPNP) and [...]

  Orangutan   GIS, Tanjung Puting, by Debra Erickson.

A new conservation project focused on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is under way at Tanjung Puting National Park. GIS is a digital mapping technology used to store and analyze geographic information. This technology is especially useful for conservation planning because it helps people understand, synthesize and communicate many different layers of information about a conservation area. At Tanjung Puting, one of the goals of GIS will be to map intact forest and prime orangutan habitat [...]

  Science Corner   GIS, by Leslie Smith.