Animation

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Deepwater_Horizon_Oil_Extent.avi

This lab showed us the basic use of animation in ArcMap.  We did not get into any fancy features and the data was simplistic.  I look forward to doing an animation project on one of the large fires we have had in Chelan County.

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

 

The purpose of  this project was to provide maps for Waterkeepers to help direct resources to the most sensitive habitats.  I chose Perdigo Bay as my study area simply because of the unique geography.  This was a long and difficult project. In spite of all the frustrations, it was a very worthwhile project.  The first stumbling block was reprojecting the quad map used for the background into a useable coordinate system.  Another hurdle was decyphering data that I have never seen before.  I improved my skills at every task involved in this project because of repititon.  Several students posted some great tips, links and other resources that helped me along the way.

Hurricane Katrina Deliverables

This was a long and fairly complex assignment.  I really enjoyed the real-world aspect of the project.  The assignment was to analyze the effects of storm surge and inland flooding on the Mississippi Coast Counties after Hurriacane Katrina and prioritize the locations for disaster aid.  This analysis showed how devestating Katrina was on the wetlands and how the wetland damage will continue to impact how susceptible the land will be to future storm damage. 

The repetition of setting the document properties and environments on four seperate maps was worthwhile.  I now see how setting environments can eliminate a lot of work in analysis.  This project also reinforced creating metadata--something I am totally lazy doing. 

What is amazing and intimidating is how many tools are available in ArcTool Box.  What I couldn't figure out is how to export a useable table out of floodedlc (flooded landcover raster file).  The table dbf table I managed to export didn't include the two fields I added for calculating acres & square miles.  I ended up manually creating an excel table.

Florida Power & Light - Final Project

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Presentation.pptx
http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Narrative.pdf

Here are the links to my final project.  There are several things I would like to have added or done differently but I ran out of time.  It was difficult to gauge what was enough.  Especially considering some of the talented over achievers in this class.  This was my first power point presentation and in these past three weeks I have learned lots.

Week 11 - Labels, Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst

This was a time consuming lab to work through.  I picked up some valuable tips along the way and realized I have just scratched the surface in labels and annotation. 

I had no idea the drawing toolbar was so powerful.  I learned lots in this lab.

I'm really looking forward to learning all the features of modeling.  I have so many recurring and time consuming tasks to automate at work.

Wk 9 - Vector Analysis II

This was a really valuable lab that taught some important and powerful analysis tools.  I look forward to trying the rest of the tools in the near future.  I was pressed for time having spent last week in Emmitsburg, MD attending a course at the Emergency Management Institute so I used the minimum amount of tools to get the lab done.

Q1. I used the intersect tool to join the water and road buffers and ended up with the same results as I did with the union tool.
Q2. I used the erase tool to remove the campsites that intersected the conservation areas. After adding the conservation areas layer, I was expecting a few more sites to be eliminated since there were six conservation areas.  Only three sites were completely eliminated while other sites reduced in size.

Q3. 79 potential campsites remained. The largest was 7,765,034 square meters and the smallest was 748 square meters. The smallest site looks like a sliver that should be removed with topology rules.

What I did on my Spring Break

This is a map of Gulf County showing the four largest land owners and their acreage owned.  I also calculated the sum of the remaining acres and included that in the legend.  This assignment was free reign with regards to which features to include.  I chose to not display any parcel lines because the data was about total acres.  After selecting a blue background, the gaps in the parcel layer showed several water features which added some nice contrast.  I added a county boundary but chose not to add any other layers since the objective of the map was met without any clutter or additional labeling.