In order to select a suitable site for the conservation of Cheetahs there were a number of manipulations and analysis that had to take place. In the beginning, most of the layers require some form of reclass. Once the data was in a usable format operation such as simple overlays and distance operations could be performed. The layers needed to be molded in order to provide the criteria for the main analysis, MCEWLC. Combinations of Boolean overlays as well as digitizing provided what was needed for the constraint criteria used in the MCEWLC. These layers simply excluded the land that was not suitable for a conservation area. These constraint factors eliminate areas because of the habitat of the animal. If you were unable to use physical data habitat selection would be very difficult to determine. With some form of habitat selection the analysis would not produce very accurate results.
