Satellite Symposium 3: Pastoral Systems
Description
Predicting livestock distribution is crucial to reducing livestock impacts on environmentally critical areas. Attempts to model livestock distribution on rangelands have met with varying levels of success. Most of these models described conditions at specific sites and did not work well when they were applied to other sites. In part, the weakness of these models arises from a lack of connection to the spatial arrangement of the study area and the pattern shown by animal distributions. To model the influence of the factors on livestock distribution we developed the Kinetic Resource and Environmental Spatial Systems (KRESS) Modeller. The KRESS Modeler is a multi-criteria decision analysis program that can use GIS layers to predict the suitability of positions in a pasture for animal use.
Citation
George, M. R.; Harris, N. R.; McDougald, N. K.; Louhaichi, M.; Johnson, M. D.; Johnson, D. E.; and Smith, K. R., "Modelling Grazing Animal Distributional Patterns Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Techniques" (2023). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 45.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/20/satellitesymposium3/45
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Modelling Grazing Animal Distributional Patterns Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Techniques
Predicting livestock distribution is crucial to reducing livestock impacts on environmentally critical areas. Attempts to model livestock distribution on rangelands have met with varying levels of success. Most of these models described conditions at specific sites and did not work well when they were applied to other sites. In part, the weakness of these models arises from a lack of connection to the spatial arrangement of the study area and the pattern shown by animal distributions. To model the influence of the factors on livestock distribution we developed the Kinetic Resource and Environmental Spatial Systems (KRESS) Modeller. The KRESS Modeler is a multi-criteria decision analysis program that can use GIS layers to predict the suitability of positions in a pasture for animal use.
