NatureServe Vista is a Decision Support System (DSS) software for conservation planning that integrates conservation information with land use patterns and policies, providing planners, resource managers, and communities with tools to help manage their natural resources. This conservation planning software enables users to create, evaluate, implement, and monitor land use and resource management plans that operate within the existing economic, social, and political context to achieve conservation goals.
NatureServe Vista will help you:
Manage projects through their complete lifecycle, including analysis, planning, implementation, and monitoring.
Create land use plans or resource management plans that reflect your unique situation and values.
Improve the efficiency of your planning process.
Enhance the consistency and repeatability of your planning efforts.
Improve stakeholder communications and build consensus with partners and constituents.
Develop documentation that supports your environmental assessments, NEPA analysis, land use or resource management decisions.
Maximize conservation results with minimum cost and land use tradeoffs.
Reduce costly legal land use conflicts.
Evaluate land use scenarios:NatureServe Vista will help you to evaluate the compatibility of various land use scenarios or management regimes with the species, ecological systems, and places that you want to conserve. The map below identifies in red locations where conservation goals are not being met. Click on the image for a larger view.
NatureServe Vista Software Version 1.3 Released(PDF) A Decision Support System (DSS) is a specialized software tool that guides users through a particular decision making process. A good DSS should make your work more efficient, defensible and repeatable. NatureServe Vista is built on ESRI's ArcMAP 9.1, the most widely-used GIS mapping technology.
