Omniscape.jl: software to compute omnidirectional landscape connectivity
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Omniscape.jl is a software package that implements the Omniscape algorithm (McRae et al., 2016) to compute landscape connectivity.It is written in the Julia programming language (Bezanson et al., 2017) to be fast, scalable, and easy-to-use.Circuitscape.jl(Anantharaman et al., 2020), the package on which Omniscape.jlbuilds and expands, abstracts landscapes as two-dimensional electrical networks and solves for current flow.The current flow that results represents landscape connectivity.Omniscape.jl is novel in that it produces maps of "omni-directional" connectivity, which provide a spatial representation of connectivity between every possible pair of start and endpoints in the landscape.These maps can be used by researchers and landscape managers to understand and predict how ecological processes (e.g., animal movement, disease transmission, gene flow, and fire behavior) are likely to manifest in geographic space.Omniscape.jlmakes use of Julia's native multi-threading, making it readily scalable and deployable to high performance compute nodes.More information on the broader Circuitscape project, which is home to Circuitscape.jland Omniscape.jl,can be found at circuitscape.org.
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- Authors
- Landau, V., Shah, V., Anantharaman, R., & Hall, K.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Open Source Software
- Publisher
- The Open Journal
- Published
- 2021-01-29
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 57
- Pages
- 2829
- ISSN
- 2475-9066 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3126829883
- Semantic Scholar
- a6824b489889125a633df4ec2dba3bae0dae87cb
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 43 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5
- FWCI
- 7.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Journal of Open Source Software (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNX17AF58G)
- Wilburforce Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- landscape connectivity, Circuitscape, electrical networks, electric current, Julia, multithreading, animal movement, disease transmission, gene flow, fire behavior, open source software
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