Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

The research under this program has included:

• New ways of classifying vegetation and habitat using remotely sensed
  data especially multi-date NDVI, and developing:
  • An eco-climatic distance measure that quantifies eco-climate and vegetation
    variability in a single continuously varying scale and has led to an index of beta diversity
    besides enabling analyses of corridors for different species
  • An index of landscape heterogeneity based on remote sensing that has three
    components of variability at 1 sq km resolution: ecosystem, seasonality and edge.

• Using species niche modeling techniques to predict and map potential
  habitat of threatened, endemic species and potential invasive species.

• Model Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) to understand drivers of change and
  also to project future scenarios to influence policy issues in a proactive manner.