Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping (AEM)

A standardized open-source mapping & classification system for measuring ecological structure, function and change across managed landscapes.

AEM is designed to measure long-term ecological changes at local and regional scales across the full range of anthropogenic landscapes, from rural to urban, from floodplain to mountainous, and from pre-industrial to contemporary.

Strategy Overview of ecological mapping and measurement using AEM.

Mapping Mapping ecotope features using AEM.

Classification Interface to the AEM classification system.

Publications Published work based on AEM.

Sites Sites mapped using AEM.

Training Materials for learning AEM (in development).

Examples

Mapping long-term ecological change in urban, suburban and rural landscapes. [article download ]
Urban, suburban and rural mapping. [download poster] (printable) Ellis et al. in 2004
Regional sampling of changes in rural China. [download]; Ellis 2004

AEM is an open source system.
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Journal Citation for AEM:

Ellis E. C., H. Wang, H. Xiao, K. Peng, X. P. Liu, S. C. Li, H. Ouyang, X. Cheng, and L. Z. Yang. 2006. Measuring long-term ecological changes in densely populated landscapes using current and historical high resolution imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 100(4):457-473.