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The coordinate system for these coordinates:
49.3445 degrees , -112.34343 degrees
What is a Geographic Coordinate System?
The tool that turns a DEM into a model that shows the sun's relief on the topography.
What is Hillshade?
Write on the board:
The statement to select areas greater than 500 square meters.
What you should always consider when preparing a map.
What is the objective or audience?
What kind of tracker was used to follow plastic in water systems?
A bottle
The projection shape of Transverse Mercator Projection.
What is an example of a cylindrical projection shape?
The tool to establish values for boolean overlays with rasters.
What is Reclassify?
Write on the board:
The statement to select both apple and oak trees from a dataset.
Select by attributes:
Where Trees is equal to Apple
OR Trees is equal to OakThe database format for storing spatial data within GIS.
What is a Geodatabase?
A map that shows density through colour values.
What is a choropleth map?
The projection for all of rural Alberta.
What is NAD 83 10TM?
The values I "want" in a boolean overlay.
What is 1?
Write on the board: The statement to attain "wildcard" values from a set of attribute data.
Ex. all fruit trees that are cherry species.
Either: New Selection, Where Fruit Contains the Text Cherry
OR: SQL, Fruit LIKE %Cherry%
The important steps in your beginning workflow (housekeeping steps).
1. Create a project and GDB with good names
2. Establish objective
3. Attain data
4. Establish projection and project data
5. Clip data to study area if needed
What is Topology?
The projection for Calgary and Edmonton specifically.
What is NAD 83 3TM 114?
The tool that creates a continuous (or prediction) surface from sampled point values.
What is Interpolation?
Write on the board:
The query to attain all park benches within 5 meters of a trail.
Hint:
Input features, Relationship, Selecting Features
Spatial Query:
Input: Park Benches
Relationship - Within 5 meters
Selecting Features: Trails
The most important map elements.
What are:
Title
Legend
North Arrow
Author
Date
Projection
Source
What is hotspot analysis?
The spherical model that approximates the shape of the world under the influences of gravity and rotation.
What is a geoid?
The raster calculator statement to attain a ranking of desired areas (ex. areas where ALL boolean parameters are true).
What is an Additive statement, ex. slope + moisture + aspect + buffer zones.
Write on the board:
How would you select all parks within a neighbourhood with area larger than 1000 meters squared?
Spatial Query:
Input: Parks
Relationship: Intersect or Within
Selecting Features: Neighbourhoods
Do not clear selection
Select by attributes
Where Area is Greater than 1000
Used to change the projection of your files and create a new shapefile.
What is Project?
Used to summarize data in specific zones or regions.
What are zonal functions?