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NEW TUTORIAL! Modeling animal home range in ArcGIS Pro

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06-10-2024 07:16 AM
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LittleMissEsri
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Hey Esri Environment Community! 

We recently posted a new tutorial going over very basic home range analysis in ArcGIS Pro. We would LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK! 

WHY? Eons ago there were a wide variety of extensions that academics, third parties and others had developed to conduct home range estimations (HREs) in good ole ArcMap. Many users were dependent on these purpose-built extensions and were hungry to learn how to replicate these workflows in ArcGIS Pro. 

We had discussions with numerous customers, some of whom even contributed test data (thank you!) and we landed with the following tutorial. It uses Elk data available from Movebank, but you can easily swap it out for your own. 

Additionally, we wrote the tutorial in a manner that, at the end, you're building it out in Model Builder which allows you to: 
- streamline this work next time in a plug-in-play fashion
- share the workflow across an organization for replication/scientific defensibility 
- begin the first steps to creating your own extension! 
- easily teach this to a class and have a working model for students to troubleshoot against

Ok, here it is! 

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Sunny Fleming serves as the Director of Conservation Solutions at Esri. Her career has been shaped by a consistent theme of applying GIS to solve real‑world challenges across conservation, environmental regulation, and parks and recreation management. From monitoring species and natural resources in the field to supporting agencies in policy development, asset management, and strategy, GIS has been central to her work at every stage. She has a passion for uniting these interconnected disciplines and advancing their role in conservation efforts around the world, and she is committed to building a global community of GIS practitioners who collaborate, innovate, and support conservation through shared expertise and geospatial insight.