Inventory and assessment of biodiversity have become essential for short- term management strategies as well as for developing and testing scientific hypotheses. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) both have special advantages in preparing inventories of species based on ecological parameters. Remote sensing can help procure valuable information on types of habitat, structures of vegetation, landscapes, and fragmentation, basically to assess the extent of diversity in biological species and make a record of the species extant. The significance of Geographic Informations Systems is in assessing the relative values; richness of species, dominance, fragmentation, porosity, and so on. Methods and parameters are described briefly with the use of tables of define some of the parameters. Useful reference material is given for those interested in pursing this topic in depth.
