SkyTruth - Analyze Week

This week we continued our work on our Mountaintop Removal project for SkyTruth.  Our goal this week was to clean up the data by setting the following parameters:

To be considered as an MTR area it must:
1. Be larger than 40 acres
2. Must be farther than 50 meters from roads and rivers
3. Must be farther than 400 meters from Major Rivers and Highways
4. Must Intersect with Mountain Ridges

In order to complete this phase of the project, we had to use several ArcGIS Tools and techniques including:

• Raster to Polygon tool
• Various Selects (By Location and Attribute)
• Feature buffering
• Overlay erasing
• Multipart to SinglePart conversion
• Calculate Geometry
• Creating Random Points
• Data Editing
• Accuracy Checking
• Packaging and Delivery

So in a pretty compact lab, we really got to showcase some of the tools we have been learning not only in this class, but the other classes as well in our UWF curriculum.