General
HABITAT is a spatial analysis tool to support the development of management plans. The This tool is especially is especially designed for ecological assessment to analyse the availability and quality of habitats for individual or groups of species, but it is also useful 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 is developed by WL Delft Hydraulics, Ministry of Transport, Public works and Water management and Delft Cluster. HABITATs current Current developer of HABITAT is Deltares. HABITAT has been built around PCRaster, a software package responsible for making the map-calculations and incorporated in the user interface of DelftShellDeltaShell.
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How to use this site
First of all you are advised to download HABITAT free of charge by clicking here and following the instructions. This site provides supplementary information for the use of HABITAT consisting of the Ecological knowledge base which includes The Ecological and Damage toolbox include factsheets on effect relations for ecological impact and damage assessment. Recent version of HABITAT can be obtained at Downloads, as well as articles and project descriptions. Tutorials, demos and user manual can be found at the Manual section. For sharing your knowledge rules look at the HABITAT Community. If you have questions or problems see the Support section.
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The information is divided into different ecological indicators including (groups of) species, ecotopes and habitat types. Besides that, there is a tutorial, user manual and a glossary available at the User Manual section. If you have any questions or suggestions please contact the HABITAT helpdesk.
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