01304nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260008900042653000800131653002200139653001900161653002200180100002000202245011400222520082200336       2014                            d  c2014bFoundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL)aPondicherry10aGIS10acapacity building10aremote sensing10athematic training1 aRavinder Bhalla00aThematic training on GIS and remote sensing for conservation research and planning. Project Completion Report3 a\textlessp\textgreaterThe 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.\textlessbr /\textgreaterMoving 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. \textlessbr /\textgreaterThis 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.\textless/p\textgreater