maxent原版英文说明复习进程.docx
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maxent原版英文说明复习进程
maxent原版英文说明
RESM575SpatialAnalysis
Spring2010
Lab6MaximumEntropy
Assigned:
MondayMarch1
Due:
MondayMarch8
20points
ThislabexercisewasprimarilywrittenbyStevenPhillips,MiroDudikandRobSchapire,withsupportfromAT&TLabs-Research,PrincetonUniversity,andtheCenterforBiodiversityandConservation,AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory.Thislabexerciseisbasedontheirpaperanddata:
StevenJ.Phillips,RobertP.Anderson,RobertE.Schapire.
Maximumentropymodelingofspeciesgeographicdistributions.
EcologicalModelling,Vol190/3-4pp231-259,2006.
MygoalistogiveyouabasicintroductiontouseoftheMaxEntprogramformaximumentropymodelingofspecies’geographicdistributions.
TheenvironmentaldataconsistofclimaticandelevationaldataforSouthAmerica,togetherwithapotentialvegetationlayer.ThesamplespeciestheauthorsusedwillbeBradypusvariegatus,thebrown-throatedthree-toedsloth.
NOTEontheMaxentsoftware
Thesoftwareconsistsofajarfile,maxent.jar,whichcanbeusedonanycomputerrunningJavaversion1.4orlater.Itcanbedownloaded,alongwithassociatedliterature,fromwww.cs.princeton.edu/~schapire/maxent.IfyouareusingMicrosoftWindows(asweassumehere),youshouldalsodownloadthefilemaxent.bat,andsaveitinthesamedirectoryasmaxent.jar.Thewebsitehasafilecalled“readme.txt”,whichcontainsinstructionsforinstallingtheprogramonyourcomputer.
Thesoftwarehasalreadybeendownloadedandinstalledonthemachinesin317Percival.
ðFirstgototheclasswebsiteanddownloadthemaxent-tutorial-data.zipfile.Extractittothec:
/tempfolderwhichwillcreateac:
/temp/tutorial-datadirectory.
ðFindthemaxentdirectoryonthec:
/driveofyourcomputerandsimplyclickonthefilemaxent.bat.Thefollowingscreenwillappear:
Toperformarun,youneedtosupplyafilecontainingpresencelocalities(“samples”),adirectorycontainingenvironmentalvariables,andanoutputdirectory.Inourcase,thepresencelocalitiesareinthefile“c:
\temp\tutorial-data\samples\bradypus.csv”,theenvironmentallayersareinthedirectory“layers”,andtheoutputsaregoingtogointhedirectory“outputs”.Youcanentertheselocationsbyhand,orbrowseforthem.Whilebrowsingfortheenvironmentalvariables,rememberthatyouarelookingforthedirectorythatcontainsthem–youdon’tneedtobrowsedowntothefilesinthedirectory.AfterenteringorbrowsingforthefilesforBradypus,theprogramlookslikethis:
Thefile“samples\bradypus.csv”containsthepresencelocalitiesin.csvformat.Thefirstfewlinesareasfollows:
species,longitude,latitude
bradypus_variegatus,-65.4,-10.3833
bradypus_variegatus,-65.3833,-10.3833
bradypus_variegatus,-65.1333,-16.8
bradypus_variegatus,-63.6667,-17.45
bradypus_variegatus,-63.85,-17.4
Therecanbemultiplespeciesinthesamesamplesfile,inwhichcasemorespecieswouldappearinthepanel,alongwithBradypus.Othercoordinatesystemscanbeused,otherthanlatitudeandlongitude,aslongasthesamplesfileandenvironmentallayersusethesamecoordinatesystem.The“x”coordinateshouldcomebeforethe“y”coordinateinthesamplesfile.
Thedirectory“layers”containsanumberofasciirastergrids(inESRI’s.ascformat),eachofwhichdescribesanenvironmentalvariable.Thegridsmustallhavethesamegeographicboundsandcellsize.MAKESUREYOURASCIIFILESHAVETHE.ascEXTENSION!
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Oneofourvariables,“ecoreg”,isacategoricalvariabledescribingpotentialvegetationclasses.Youmusttelltheprogramwhichvariablesarecategorical,ashasbeendoneinthepictureabove.
Doingarun
Simplypressthe“Run”button.Aprogressmonitordescribesthestepsbeingtaken.Aftertheenvironmentallayersareloadedandsomeinitializationisdone,progresstowardstrainingofthemaxentmodelisshownlikethis:
The“gain”startsat0andincreasestowardsanasymptoteduringtherun.Maxentisamaximum-likelihoodmethod,andwhatitisgeneratingisaprobabilitydistributionoverpixelsinthegrid.Notethatitisn’tcalculating“probabilityofoccurrence”–itsprobabilitiesaretypicallyverysmallvalues,astheymustsumto1overthewholegrid.Thegainisameasureofthelikelihoodofthesamples;forexample,ifthegainis2,itmeansthattheaveragesamplelikelihoodisexp
(2)≈7.4timeshigherthanthatofarandombackgroundpixel.Theuniformdistributionhasgain0,soyoucaninterpretthegainasrepresentinghowmuchbetterthedistributionfitsthesamplepointsthantheuniformdistributiondoes.Thegainiscloselyrelatedto“deviance”,asusedinstatistics.
Therunproducesanumberofoutputfiles,ofwhichthemostimportantisanhtmlfilecalled“bradypus.html”.Partofthisfilegivespointerstotheotheroutputs,likethis:
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