Map Making 101
This element shows a small map of the wider region so readers know where your study site is
What is an inset map? (or extent indicator)
What is the Mean?
You have a spreadsheet of nest coordinates in lat/long columns. This ArcGIS Pro tool turns it into a point layer.
What is XY Table to Point?
These plants and animals thrive at the interface between two adjacent habitat types (living on the edge)
What is an edge-species?
Andrew's cat, who often sits on your homework.
Who is Charles?
A collection of files inside a folder with a .gdb extension that stores, queries, and manages spatial and nonspatial GIS data
What is a File Geodatabase
The actual feature considered to be most center/spatially in the middle of your dataset
What is the Central Feature?
This tool measure the incoming amount of sunlight energy received per unit area over a defined time period (kWh/m2)
What is the Raster Solar Radiation tool?
These narrow strips of habitat connect adjacent patches (often of similar types)
What are Habitat Corridors?
A living, evolving document that details how your project handles and stores data
What is a Data Management Plan?
This type of coordinate system tells you how to draw data on a flat surface, often given in distance units
What is a Projected Coordinate System?
Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things
What is Tobler's First Law of Geography?
This type of vector data only has length, but no area
What are line features?
A world renowned corridor project, these iconic bridges connect adjacent forests in Alberta and prevent huge numbers of wildlife roadkill each year
What are the Banff Wildlife Crossings
This handy website helps with planning drone flights, ensuring local aircraft know you are flying in the area
What is Nav Canada?
This type of model shows the elevation of earth, including natural and human structures such as trees and houses
What is a Digital Surface Model?
When calculating the average nearest neighbour ratio, a value of < 1 indicates this distribution?
What is a Clustered Distribution?
This tool easily converts tracks or line features to polygons
What is the Feature to Polygon tool?
A raster layer showing how easy or hard it is for animals to travel across a landscape
What is a landscape resistance surface?
This type of data represents space as a grid of equal-sized cells (pixels), where each cell holds a single value describing what’s at that location
What is Raster Data?
A geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the surface of the Earth (horizontal lines)
What is Latitude?
When calculating the average nearest neighbour ratio, a value of > 1 indicates this distribution?
What is a Dispersed Distribution?
These are the five components of a Geographic Information System
What are Data, Hardware, Software, Procedures, and People?
Who is Euclid?
Often abbreviated as LiDAR, this is a remote sensing method that uses pulsed lasers to measure exact distances and build detailed 3D models of objects and surfaces
What is Light Detection and Ranging