Proposed the Potential Corridor for Mountain Lions Protection in Los Angeles area

1. Build a Model to Connect Mountain Lion
Habitat
Farhan Mustafa
Rahat Tufail
Imran Asghar
Course Instructor: Muhammad Asif Javed

2.  Study Area
 Background
 Objectives
 Determine Optimal Habitat Conditions
 Build a Suitability Model
 Build a Corridor Model
 Evaluate Results
Overview

3. Study Area ( Greater Los Angeles)

4. Study Area ( Smaller Extent of Los Angeles)

5. Background
 Mountain Lions Species in
Study Area
 Study Area Terrain Type
 Endangerment of species

6. Objectives
 To Identify the Potential
Habitats for Mountains Lions
 Build a Model to Identify the
Potential Wildlife Corridors
order to connect Habitats
Wildlife Corridors

7. Determine optimal habitat conditions
1) Ruggedness of terrain
2) Dense land cover
3) Protected areas
4) Distance from roads

12. Build a Suitability Model
• Distance to roads, for
instance, is measured in
meters
• Ruggedness is measured in
change in elevation
• Protected areas and land
cover use their own unique
classification systems

13. Reclassify
 Reclassify data representing
the criteria into least and most
suitable
Use three classifications:
• 1 (most suitable)
• 2 (moderately suitable)
• 3 (least suitable)

14. Ruggedness Distance to Roads
Land cover Protected Area

15. Weighted Cost Surface
 Overlay and combine the
reclassified data into a weighted
cost surface
• Ruggedness_Reclassified =0.1
• Distance_to_Roads_Reclassified=0.
1
• Land_Cover_Reclassifie=0.4
• Protected_Status_Reclassified=0.4

16. Suitability Model (Output)
Suitability Surface

17. Suitability Model (Output)

18. Build a Corridor Model
 Identify least-cost paths
• Use the Cost Connectivity
geoprocessing tool

19. Cost Connectivity Tool
• Identifies an optimum
network of least-cost paths
• Core Habitats
• Cost Surface

20. The cost connectivity workflow scenarios

21. Build a Corridor Model

22. Corridor Model (output)
Mountain Lion Corridors Mountain Lion Corridors Advanced

23. Evaluate Results

24. Evaluate Results