M6 Georeferencing, Editing, and 3D

 

This week's lab was quite the task of georeferencing, digitizing, and exploring the digital elevation model (DEM) of the UWF campus. We had to create a buffer for the eagle's nest fairly close to campus and the Escambia River. We created 330 and 660 feet buffers around the nest due to protection from any future expansion of the campus. This first map shows the DEM and buffer zones with the root mean square error data. 

This is the second deliverable map, also of the UWF campus. It involved loading a lidar file and converting it to a raster file. It also shows the digitized road and building layers, in yellow. The angle is looking northwest over the campus with a maximum elevation of around 255 feet, shown as a whiter color. I also loaded two jpegs making up the north and south part of the campus. They are draped over the DEM.

M5 Geocoding School Addresses

 This map reflects geocoding results of Manatee County, FL schools, from the university to preschool. The data is courtesy of the Florida Department of Education where I added the data as a .csv file from Excel. It was interesting to create an address locator, use it to create feature classes, and add everything together to create a map to share. The process for this lab was a challenge and once reiterated how GIS tells me the errors of not following each step so precisely.

M4 Campsites in National Forest

This week's lab was about creating buffers, buffer analysis, and creating unions. The resulting map shows possible campsites within a national forest. I excluded conservation areas in order to protect the flora and fauna from campers. The results are the available campsites outside of conservation areas. They show as color-coded polygon areas which show the results of prime areas for possible campsites. I chose equal interval for the method with three classes and three-step graduated colors of orange-reddish tones normalized with the percentage of total area. As the colors get darker on the scale the greater the area size with more potential for finding a campsite.

 

M3 Final Projection comparison

The module for this week is creating a map showing the differences in coordinate systems that can show distortion for the same layers. This map compares Albers, UTM 16Z, and State Plane N for four counties in Florida. This as a final turn-in is a much better map than the previous one posted. I left the previous map post up to show how a map can look better, although not perfect, by adding some color and ensuring data are in straight lines for presentation. The "area in square miles" box has a white rectangle and I had trouble removing it but the information is still there.