CorridorDesigner Downloads
CorridorDesigner includes an ArcToolbox toolbox for creating habitat and corridor models with ArcGIS and an extension which can be added to ArcMap to evaluate corridors. All tools and supplentary materials are works in progress, and undoubtedly contain bugs, typos, and other occasional screw-ups. If you experience a problem with the tools, please send us an email so we can help you figure out how to fix it.
To be notified of significant changes or additions to the tools, please contact Dan. Don't worry, you will only receive email regarding CorridorDesigner, and we won't do anything jerky with your email address.
Conceptual steps for designing corridors
PDF file documenting the important steps for designing wildlife corridors, taken from our workshops in Fall 2007. Much of this material is repeated in the designing corridors section of the website; however, the PDF file contains more images, and is formatted for printing. For our workshop presentations on designing corridors, see the workshops page.
Downloads
- Conceptual steps for designing wildlife corridors (1 MB; last modified 17 December 2007)
- Best management practices for corridors
- CorridorDesigner poster
ArcGIS toolbox for designing corridors
The CorridorDesigner toolbox aids the user in:
- creating habitat suitability models & identifying potential habitat patches
- creating corridor models
- transforming a DEM into a topographic slope position raster, and
The CorridorDesigner toolbox currently only works within ArcCatalog, not ArcMap, and requires all data to be in the same meters (UTM) projection.
Downloads
- CorridorDesigner toolbox v0.2 (‹1 MB; last modified 18 October 2007)
- Common CorridorDesigner Toolbox Errors (last modified 23 January 2008)
- CorridorDesigner toolbox tutorial (1 MB; last modified 17 December 2007)
- CorridorDesigner toolbox tutorial dataset (9 MB; last modified 16 December 2007)
ArcMap extension for evaluating corridors
The ArcMap extension allows the user to evaluate and compare alternative corridor designs by calculating metrics such as:
- Width and bottlenecks throughout a corridor
- Distances between habitat patches within a corridor
- General statistics such as histograms of habitat suitability within a corridor
The CorridorDesigner evaluation extension is designed to work with the output from the ArcGIS extension to evaluate potential wildlife corridors.
Downloads
- ArcMap Extension for evaluating corridors (4.5 MB; last modified 02 January 2008)
- Documentation for ArcMap Extension (15 MB; last modified 02 January 2008)
- ArcMap Extension Revisions (last modified 02 January 2008)
Arizona CorridorDesigner Toolbox
The Arizona CorridorDesigner toolbox is a streamlined toolbox for performing corridor analyses within Arizona, USA. It provides parameterized models for 25 species modeled in the Arizona Missing Linkages project, including bighorn, pronghorn, black-tailed rattlesnake, mountain lion, desert tortoise, black bear, black-tailed jackrabbit, elk, mule deer, javelina, coati, and others.
This toolbox provides an easy entry point to the corridor design process for those in Arizona. Besides species parameterizations, we also provide the base GIS layers necessary to run the models.
The Arizona CorridorDesigner toolbox includes the general CorridorDesigner toolbox available separately above. In order to use the Arizona toolbox, you must also download the GIS dataset which works in conjunction with the tools. If you already have a 30m DEM, a roads shapefile, and an ownership/stewardship file for Arizona in NAD UTM z12 projection, you can just download the customized land cover layer. Otherwise, you should download the full GIS dataset.
- Arizona CorridorDesigner toolbox v0.1 (2 MB; last modified 08 November 2007)
- Arizona CorridorDesigner toolbox documentation & species accounts (1 MB; last modified 02 January 2008)
- Arizona CorridorDesigner GIS Dataset (400 MB; last modified 17 December 2007)
- Arizona CorridorDesigner Landcover Raster (54 MB; last modified 17 December 2007)
