Module 7 - Project Analysis Final

 This week, in the final GIS lab, was about applying all we had learned to do our own project analysis on a transmission line that was going through Sarasota County and Manatee County. 

    This lab was very hands-off and had use what we learned from the entire course to get our results. In the provided power point and transcript below, you can see I did try my best. 

A quick summary of the lab is we had to find the impacts of the transmission line on the environment, homes, county parcels, and schools. With the environment, there was a fair amount of conservation land and wetlands inside the preferred corridor. However, due to time and difficulty, I was unable to present any results on the acres of land inside the corridor. With homes, I had much better luck, as there were 24 houses within the transmission line area, and 42 homes in the 400-ft buffer around the transmission line. With parcels, there were 30 Sarasota County parcels and 132 Manatee County parcels within the transmission line area. There are also 23 Sarasota County parcels and 70 Manatee County parcels within the 400-ft buffer area around the transmission line area. Lastly, with schools, there were none within the 400-ft buffer but 4 Manatee County schools and 1 Sarasota County schools within the study area. 

Overall, this lab was a great conclusion to this course and provided a good test of what we learned. Although I may have faltered a bit, I did enjoy trying to present what I found and did my best. 

Links: Transcript /// Power Point

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