Reese's GIS Expedition

     This week,  in the sixth Applications in GIS lab, was about  Suitability Analysis.     In this lab we utilized more of our skills with ArcGIS to do sustainability analysis on a study area in Oregon. In the first part of the lab it was us attempting to do analysis to find where there would be possible mountain lion habitats within the study area. Although it will not be presented within this blog, the analysis proved a good warmup for the map we will be presenting.     In the map below, you will see a suitability analysis of the study area with concerns to property development. This analysis first started with reclassifying land cover with ratings from 1 to 5. The desirable areas are labeled 5, like agriculture and meadows, while the lower end is 1 with urban and rivers. Following this, we did the same to soils after changing it from a polygon to a raster. For Soils we also rated it 1 to 5. Moving on, we also did the same for elevation af...

     This week,  in the fifth Applications in GIS lab, was about Hazards with concerns for  Damage Assessment.      In this lab, we expanded more on what we did previously in the last lab, by analyzing hurricane paths, hurricane citizen survey, and also more hurricane Sandy's impact on New Jersey analysis. The first part of the lab had us map out the hurricane path that sandy took, with some refreshers on how to map it cartography-ly correctly. This was then followed up with us making a survey that could be emulated for people to respond to when a hurricane has affected them. Which then brings us to the last part of the lab, which we will focus more on as this is what was primary worked on in the lab.      Before we even got to the damage assessment part of the lab we first made raster mosaics with jpeg files in order to have pre and post imagery into ArcGIS. This was done by adding the jpeg files into the raster mosaics and ensurin...