1. BlueSpray A GIS application for environmental science and natural resource management Includes tools for modeling: –HEMI –Maxent regression optimization –Statistical tests AIC, AICc, BIC, Likelihood Pearson’s and Spearman’s –Random dataset generation Based on OpenSource and custom code

2. BlueSpray Ownership Owned by SchoonerTurtles.com –Which is owned by Jim Graham Currently in “beta” testing Free to beta testers Need a passcode which changes once a year Plan on continuing to provide BlueSpray at little or no cost for environmental science research academics and non- profits

3. BlueSpray Expansion BlueSpray was build to be a platform for GIS software development: –File handlers –Transforms –“Painters” –Layer types –Tools (things you use with your “hand” like pointers, magnifying classes, brushes, etc.) –Etc.

4. BlueSpray and Java Runs on MS-Windows, Mac, and UNIX Java is not slow, but programmers can make it that way (i.e. BlueSpray is fast) Need to have Java 7 installed Free, OpenSource Managed by Oracle and Java.net

5. Installing Java Follow the instructions at www.schoonerturtles.com There are two versions of Java: –32-bit: can run on 32 or 64-bit OSes –64-bit: can only run on 64-bit Oses Recommended to only install one version of Java Install Java 3D if you want to visualize data in 3D (under development)

6. Installing BlueSpray Download from www.schoonerturtles.com www.schoonerturtles.com Uncompress the zip file That’s it!

7. Running BlueSpray Java programs run under a “virtual machine” –Needs to know the min/max memory –Also needs to know the location of dynamic linked libraries (DLLs) –There are different DLLs for 32-bit and 64- bit

8. BlueSpray Launcher

9. BlueSpray64.bat java : virtual machine -Djava.security.policy=applet.policy –To run applets -Xms512m : minimum memory -Xmx4024m : maximum memory Djava.library.path=..\BlueSpray\STLibrari es64 –Path to DLLs -jar BlueSpray.jar : program to run

10. Learning BlueSpray See the documentation that comes with BlueSpray –It’s minimum at this point –Let me know what is needed and I’ll add & edit

11. BlueSpray for Modeling Optimal regularization and uncertainty maps for Maxent Quick creation of tabular files –Extract… in attributes Quick conversions between points and rasters Statistical tests HEMI