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InVEST
Open-source suite of ecosystem-service models from the Natural Capital Alliance at Stanford; maps and values what nature provides in terrestrial, freshwater, marine, coastal and urban settings.
What is reusable: open sourceopen dataAPI unknownopen participation
InVEST is a suite of 21 free, open-source models for mapping and valuing the goods and services people get from nature, made by the Natural Capital Alliance (NatCap) at Stanford University. The models cover terrestrial, freshwater, marine, coastal and urban ecosystems.
It is meant to inform decisions about land and water; the Alliance points to its featured projects and publications for examples of use, and the software page itself names no case.
The models run in the InVEST Workbench, a downloadable application, with a user guide and data sources. Community plugins extend the Workbench through a plugin registry, a Data Hub offers global layers and pre-processed inputs, and support comes through a community forum, video tutorials and a self-paced online course. Bugs and contributions go through public issue trackers.
Operational and maintained; NatCap publishes a quarterly software column.
- form
- Open ecosystem-service models
- group
- Ecosystems and land
- homepage
- https://naturalcapitalalliance.stanford.edu/software
helps answer this question
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If land changes use, farm to housing, forest to pasture, floodplain to park, what happens to water, habitat, carbon and food?
Tags: ecosystem services, natural capital, conservation