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University of Oklahoma
Portfolio of Geographic Information Science

GIS Research @ OU

GIS Projects at the Oklahoma Biological Survey

Breeding Bird Atlas for Oklahoma - This project is being conducted in conjunction with the George Sutton Avian Research Center. The objective of the project is to create maps for every species of bird that breeds in the state of Oklahoma. One long-term benefit of this project is that it can be repeated in 20-25 years, and changes in the distributions of breeding birds may indicate the well being of those species in the state. Go HERE for more information on the atlas.

Camp Gruber GIS system - The Survey is producing a GIS database for the National Guard training base located here. The system will be used for a variety of studies including environmental monitoring of the camp and for use in planning their training sites.

Oklahoma GAP Project - Working in conjunction with the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory and the University of Oklahoma the Oklahoma Biological Survey is working to create a distribution layer for Oklahoma terrestrial vertebrates. The Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory is also generating a state land-ownership, or protetion, layer. Oklahoma State University is developing a vegetation map for the state and will use this layer along with the land-ownership and terrestrial vertibrate distribution layers to assess species diversity and protection across the state.

Fort Sill GIS Project - The Survey is creating a vegetation map from digitized aerial photographs to be used in a GIS to study bird and mammal distribution in the area and for computation of landscape ecology indices.

Prairie Dog town Project - This project is designed to map current and historical distributions of prairie dog towns in Oklahoma. The GIS will be used to assist mapping efforts and in detecting changes in the distributions of the towns.

Scissortail Flycatcher Project - This project is being conduct to map scissortail flycatcher distribution across the central United States. Landscape ecology indices will be computed and a study of the relationship of these indices to the distribution of the scissortail flycatcher will be conducted.