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specified status value. You can control the percentage usedby just typing in the percentage value.Cost Options:There are four ways to assign a cost value to each planningunit: a) Specify a grid (e.g. ERS model) that is currently inyour map view; b) Select “Planning Unit Area” to assignthe area of the planning unit to each correspondingplanning unit; c) Select “Planning Unit Field” to choose apre-defined field in the planning unit layer that contains acost value; and d) type in a flat cost that will be assigned toevery planning unit.Method: If you choose a grid to calculate the cost perplanning unit, you must choose a zonal grid function (Sum,Mean, or Maximum) that will be used for each planningunit. The default is Sum which assigns the sum of allunderlying grid cells within each planning unit as the costfor that planning unit. Mean assigns the mean value andMaximum assigns the maximum value of the cost on a perplanning unit basis.Cost Surface Field:Output Directory:If you choose the “Planning Unit Field” option for the cost,you must then specify the Cost Field in the drop-downmenu.Specify the directory where the new Marxan output fileswill be written. If you are running multiple scenarios, it ishelpful to assign descriptive names to the folders (e.g.high_goals_no_lock_with_cost). It is best not to use adirectory that has a space in the path (e.g. C:\Document andSettings\User)When all the parameters have been set, double check them, and then click the “OK”button. This will execute the program and create the output text files: spec.dat,puvspr.dat, pu.dat, bound.dat (if specified), and block.dat (if specified) in the specifiedoutput directory. Processing may take a long time depending on number of planningunits, targets, and options specified.TNC Protected Area Tools (PAT) Version 3.0The Nature Conservancy, August 200964
3.2.4 Combining Marxan Input FilesIf needed, the Marxan Tools offer an easy way to combine Marxan input files. The“Combine Marxan Input Files” tool can be used to combine several input files such aspuvspr.dat and spec.dat file as well as the block.dat file if running a block definition.This is the sixth drop down menu item on the Marxan Tools list. Just add the .dat filesyou want to combine, specify a new output filename, and click “OK” If you are doingthis, it’s important to keep track of which text files represent which feature types byincluding the feature type in the file name (e.g. puvspr_points.dat, spec_polys.dat). Youshould only have to combine multiple series of puvspr.dat, spec.dat, and block.dat filesbecause the pu.dat and bound.dat files will be the same between features.3.2.5 Run Convert to Matrix FileFor those using Marxan 2.0.2 and above (MarxanOptimised), you must obtain a copy of the“convert_mtx.exe” executable available on the Marxanwebsite in order to converts existing Marxan matrixfiles into a format compatible with Marxan Optimised.These versions of Marxan are sensitive to the order ofplanning unit identifiers in the Marxan planning unit byspecies sparse (or relational) matrix and can only use asparse matrix, which is not compatible with a tabularmatrix. Once the executable is available on a local harddrive, users can use this tool to point to the executableand convert the tabular (horizontal) matrix into a sparse(relational or vertical) matrix.TNC Protected Area Tools (PAT) Version 3.0The Nature Conservancy, August 200965
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