Welcome To ATREE

Centre for Eco-Informatics

The Eco-informatics Centre at ATREE was established in 2004 to address gaps in ecological information and to facilitate institutional exchange in the fields of ecology and natural resource management (NRM) in India. Its goal is to serve as a web-enabled, publicly accessible resource for integrated information on ecology and the environment. The Centre is working to provide a "Cyber Ecology" platform for India's biodiversity hotspots such as the Western Ghats and the Eastern Himalaya. The Eco-informatics system is currently being designed to facilitate access to critical conservation and NRM information that is of interest to researchers, educators, government and non-government organizations, planners, policy makers, and to the public. Major objectives of the Centre are to:

Assemble, organise and disseminate ecological, geo-physical and socio-economic data;
Promote research on the organization and dissemination of databases through modeling and software development techniques;
Build capacity among environmental professionals to handle large databases, add value to them through the use of information technology tools and conduct modeling exercises.

The Eco-informatics Centre at ATREE is the first of its kind in the country to offer interactive, queriable web-GIS services through its website www.ecoinfoindia.org. Users can analyze, integrate and map spatial data for conservation and NRM. The goal is to eventually provide access to GIS data related to conservation and NRM for the entire country. The website currently offers published maps based on years of ecological and environmental research conducted in the Western Ghats region.

For more information visit: http://www.ecoinfoindia.org/