Conservation Objective Prioritization Tool

The Conservation Objective Prioritization Tool allows the user to prioritize the management units under their control based upon a user-specified set of input criteria. These identified input criteria are often identified as part of structured decision making workshops held between the managing agency and relevant stakeholders. These input criteria can be in the form of values within attribute fields contained in the management unit boundary spatial data set or as raster data sets underlying the management units that are subsequently summarized (averaged) for each unit by the tool. Each input criteria is also given a relative weight whereupon greater emphasis can be given to those criteria most important to managers.