Project 2 - Marin County Tree Program

Week 1 - Prepare: San Francisco Air Quality

Ozone - http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/ST/Metadata/ozone_md.htm

Asthma - http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/ST/Metadata/asthma_md.htm

Demographics - http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/ST/Metadata/demogr_md.htm

Particulate Matter - http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/ST/Metadata/particulate_md.htm

Week 5 - Lidar

Week 3 - Orthorectification

Here is the link for the Challenge Assignment.

http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/Week3/pcola3.xps

Overall, I am extremely frustrated trying to use ERDAS. As with any new program, it is going to time to familiarize myself with its features. The step by step instructions are very helpful. However, not knowing where to find appropriate controls is time consuming. It is also frustrating when the program crashes time and time again. Is this part of a master plan to really help us learn how to use it? You know the old saying...practice makes perfect. I certainly practiced the steps many times for this assignment. I am also having a hard time adding features to the map view layout. Specifically, the scale bar. When I try to add it keeps saying that it must be on a georeferenced map. So I end up just using a map template...although I do not believe the scale is correct. Sugesstions?

Week 2 - Spectral Bands

Here are the links for the Module 2 Challenge Assignment:


http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/Module2/finalmap1.xps


http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/Module2/finalmap2.xps


http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/Module2/finalmap3.xps

Module 1 Challege

Here is the link to our Module 1 Challenge...

http://students.uwf.edu/ecg13/mod1final.xps

Final Project

Caption:
2009 United States ACT Participation Percentages and Composite Score Results. Data collected is for the graduating class of 2009. Score results accquired from Reading, English, Math and Science test averages.

Week 11 - Google Earth

This week's map utilized the Google Earth program. After I chose the site for placement of a wind turbine, an annotated placemark was used to depict the location.

Week 10 - Isarithmic Map

Week 9 - Flow Map

This weeks map illustrates immigration to the US for 2007. The map was created in ARCGIS and completed using Illustrator. Yet again, my text did not show up. I'm not sure why, I agreed to update when prompted in Illustrator. For the lines, I used the arc tool and added the arrowheads.

Week 8 - Dot Map

Wow, this map took a long time. We were given data from the 2000 Census to calculate the population and housing density per area. From this, I calculated the dot value and how many to place in each county. I was unclear about a few of the counties that contained mostly wetlands and required many dots. As for dot placement, I tried to copy and paste at first but it took way too long. So I tried to use the paint sprayer which ended up being a disaster. As I "sprayed" the dots the area kept getting larger and was out of control. Dots were ending up in other counties. Finally, I somehow figured out that I could use the paint brush to add dots with just one click, where ever I wanted them to be.

Week 7 - Proportional Map

Okay, here it is. Circles in Illustrator are not my friend. And yet again, I feel like I am taking the really long route to accomplish simple tasks. Hopefully with practice, things will move more quickly. I'm not sure why my country labels are not shown on the map. I labeled them in Arcmap and when I saved it as an ai file they disappeared. The same thing happened with the scale text, except I could click on the area where the text should have been and I was able to change the font and it was viewable. I could not get it to work for the country labels.

Week 6 - Choropleth Mapping

This is the black and white version with the calculations for each division. I am not sure if this was done correctly but I took each divsion and calculated the average from all the states to come up with my percentage. Next was to display this by using Illustrator. It seems that there should be many shortcuts that I just do not know about. It takes a long time for me to do anything in this program. It also does not help that the remote desktop has a lag time.

This map was fairly simple to complete. However, my biggest challenge was trying to figure out how to change the projection. I could not find the Albers projection...the discussion board is great...thanks again Lynn.

Week 5

For this lab, we were given several items that needed to be resized, arranged, and recolored. I'm sure there are several ways to accomplish this but I am the right-click queen when it comes to doing these tasks. I really want to have a background color but everything I have tried fails to show up in a jpeg. Any tips would be nice...

Week Four

Okay, here it is. I had a blue background for the water area but it did not show up in the jpg. Creating this map was a little frustrating because I do not know the program at all. Once I figured out how to do the simple tasks it went by quick. I was poking around a lot and I must say, Illustrator is intimidating.

Week 3: Data Classification

It seems to me that the Quantile version portrays the data best.

I am not quite sure I have the correct data in this map. The Standard Deviation map would not allow for 5 classes, which makes me think I have missed a step. The classification of data in these maps create a completely different outcome.

This map clearly serves its purpose of illustrating a subdivision. First, it is aesthetically pleasing. Second, it has labeled all necessary items. And lastly, the layout design allows the reader to view the map easily.

This map is not labeled properly. For the purpose of depicting monitoring wells, the rivers and bay need to be identified. It does not describe location or orientation. Also, the dots portraying monitor location are quite small and some of the color choices are similar, making it difficult to distinguish between the dates given.

Okay, I'm ready to start blogging.