{"id":183968,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/geoprocessing-techniques-and-spatialnon-spatial"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:15:28","slug":"geoprocessing-techniques-and-spatialnon-spatial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/geoprocessing-techniques-and-spatialnon-spatial\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoprocessing techniques and spatial\/non-spatial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem Statement <\/strong><\/p>\n

You were hired by a recently established conservation organization called Global<\/p>\n

C<\/p>\n

onservation Initiative (GCI). GCI is working on a conservation project in Hawaii and is<\/p>\n

interested in determining the direct environmental impacts of a development proposal<\/p>\n

that intends to allow the expansion of urban, commercial, industrial, and agricultural<\/p>\n

areas in the island of Hawaii. The approval of this proposal will allow the expansion of<\/p>\n

these kinds of uses 3 miles outwards from the limit of current anthropogenic zones (i.e.<\/p>\n

created by humans). The following list includes all the possible anthropogenic zones<\/p>\n

found in the area:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Commercial and service areas<\/li>\n
  2. Confined feeding operations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    3.<\/p>\n

    Cropland and pastures<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Industrial<\/li>\n
    2. Industrial and commercial complexes<\/li>\n
    3. Mixed rangeland<\/li>\n
    4. Mixed urban or built-up land<\/li>\n
    5. Orchards, groves, vineyards, etc.<\/li>\n
    6. Residential<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      10.<\/p>\n

      Strip mines, quarries, and gravel pits<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Transportation and communication service<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        areas<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Transitional areas<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Fig. 1 Chasiempis ibidis <\/em><\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

          Your job is to generate a report<\/p>\n

          that assesses the potential impacts of this proposal <\/strong>on<\/p>\n

          the natural habitats in the study area. The direct impacts can be assessed by determining<\/p>\n

          the extent of each habitat that could be potentially affected by establishing a new<\/p>\n

          development outbound. GCI provides you with a shapefile with a series of nesting sites<\/p>\n

          of a few bird species including the species elepaios<\/strong><\/p>\n

          (Chasiempis ibidis)(Fig. 1<\/em>) that has<\/p>\n

          been listed as an endangered species. The report should indicate the total number of<\/strong><\/p>\n

          ACTIVE <\/strong>Chasiempis ibidis<\/em><\/p>\n

          nesting sites that could be potentially affected<\/strong> by the<\/p>\n

          passing the proposal. Additionally, it should clearly show the number of <\/strong>Chasiempis<\/em><\/p>\n

          ibidis<\/em> active nesting <\/strong>sites that can be found within each natural habitat that could be<\/p>\n

          potentially affected<\/p>\n

          Data <\/strong><\/p>\n

          The site http:\/\/water.usgs.gov\/GIS\/dsdl\/ds240\/index.html contains a series of<\/p>\n

          historical land use and land cover maps for several regions of the US developed by the<\/p>\n

          United States Geological Service (USGS).In the section \u201cDownload land use and land<\/p>\n

          cover data sets using clickable image map\u201d, download the layer that corresponds to<\/p>\n

          region of \u201cHawaii\u201d:<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

          \uf0b7 Create a LAB4 folder on your flash drive  and save the zip file there. Unzip it and<\/p>\n

          open the layer in ArcMap.<\/p>\n

          \uf0b7 On CANVAS, go to \u201cAssignments \u00e0<\/p>\n

          StudyArea_NestingSites.zip. This file contains the shapefiles of the study area<\/p>\n

          (study_area.shp) and nesting sites of three different bird species that include<\/p>\n

          Chasiempis ibidis <\/em>(nesting_sites.shp).<\/p>\n

          \uf0b7 Add these layers to a new map view in ArcMap. If you zoom in to the extent of<\/p>\n

          the study area, your map view should look something like this:<\/p>\n

          2<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

           <\/strong><\/p>\n

           <\/strong><\/p>\n

          Processing Hints<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Since both the nesting sites and land use\/land cover maps comprise areas much larger<\/p>\n

          than the actual study area<\/em><\/strong>, we should clip both layers using the study area boundary. This<\/p>\n

          technique is usually used to reduce processing time, especially when the datasets are very<\/p>\n

          large.<\/p>\n

          \uf0b7<\/p>\n

          Use the clip tool under \u201cGeoprocessing\u201d to cut both layers to the study area\u2019s<\/p>\n

          extent.<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

          \uf0b7<\/p>\n

          The input features <\/strong>are the features you want to cut or clip. The clip features<\/strong> are<\/p>\n

          the features used to cut the input features (think about clipping as using a cookie<\/p>\n

          cutter). The following example shows the clipping procedure for nesting sites.<\/p>\n

          You need to clip each layer (land use and nesting sites) one by one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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