Plugin QHWC para el diagnóstico del paisaje de conflicto oso - gente

Abstract

Colombia is a renowned country for its mega diversity and for being the habitat of important species such as the Andean Bear. It is currently reported as a vulnerable species due to habitat loss associated with human development activities and, therefore, conflicts between the species and humans sharing the same territorial space. This paper proposes to implement a QGIS plugin to automate the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) guide to assess the conflict between the Andean bear and farmers, highlighting that it performs the geoprocessing proposed in the guide, but requires the user to have the appropriate inputs and to carry out complementary social and environmental work. The document details the planning, design, development, and validation phases of the plugin, as well as the diagrams of use cases, classes, packages, components, sequence, activity and deployment. The graphical interfaces of the plugin and the resulting layers with their symbology are shown. Finally, the processing time of the plugin is reported, and a considerable time reduction is obtained with respect to the manual implementation of the guide.