Information for Registrants
This page is intended to provide those already signed up for the workshops with some useful information. More information is added regularly in the run-up to the workshops.
All workshops
- One major component of the workshop is the computer sessions, in which you will learn how to use the distance sampling software Distance. We will be using the latest version of Distance. Participants are welcome to bring their own laptop computer to work on, although there are machines available in the workshop classroom. Please make sure your laptop meets the minimum requirements for loading and running Distance: 64 MB RAM; at least 40MB spare disk space; 800x600 screen resolution; CD drive; NT4 (Service pack 3) or Windows 98, or newer. More information about program Distance.
Workshop 1
- If you're keen, you may want to have a look at a previous edition of the distance sampling reference book, which is available on-line. Each registrant will receive a printed copy the new version of this book at the workshop.
- If you are planning on bringing some of your own data to the workshop, you should read about how to prepare your data for use in Distance.
Workshop 2
- If you are planning on bringing your own data for analysis in Distance 6, the following information may be useful:
- The GIS engine used by Distance 5 reads ESRI shapefiles. We will have some computers with ESRI Arc for editing spatial data. There is also a MapInfo to ShapeFile converter utility, although we have not tried it ourselves.
- Non-spatial data can be in text files or in Microsoft (MS) Access 97 format. We will have copies of Access 97 on the some machines.
- Given data in the above formats, it should be possible to manipulate it so that it can be read in to Distance 6.
- Distance 6 also imports data from Distance 5, 4 and 3.5 files, so if you have data already in a previous version there should be no problems moving it across.
- Don't worry if you don't have any data to bring along for this workshop - we'll have plenty of exercises to keep you busy!
General
If you have any questions that are not addressed here, please contact the workshop organiser (telephone information and address on workshop main page).