GIS II

Jeffrey Hessburg Final Project GIS II Relocating the Big Lake Close Area Migratory Bird Hunting R efuge Background & Objective The Nelson/Trevino Bottoms is a very popular public duck hunting area. A waterfowl-refuge has been placed on the Big Lake. In this area, no one is allowed to hunt. The purpose of this area is to give the ducks a good and safe habitat to sleep and feed. A lot of hunters have become upset with this refuge because it blocks off a large portion of the easily accessible duck hunting land. This causes hunters to set up much closer to one another which is dangerous. It also also puts a lot of pressure on ducks, forcing them to migrate elsewhere.  The objective of this project is to relocate the refuge. Ideally in the same watershed with the similar habitat.  Literature Review Looking at various journals, the most important part in consideration of a refuge is the type of habitat. Ducks will land either to feed or nest. This all ties ...

Jeffrey Hessburg GIS II 2 May 2018 LAB 6 The objective of this lab is to build a spatial model of site suitability for corn cultivation using the model builder. Site suitability of corn cultivation is dependent on land use, slope, and soil. The model builder uses various tools, explained below, that are able to rank the best land and the worst land for corn cultivation. This land is then able to be mapped.  To get to the final map the model builder is needed. In the model builder, the proper shape files need to be added. These include the landuse shapefile, the slope shapefile, and the soils shapefile. Once these are added, the shape files need to be converted to raster. This is done by dragging the feature to raster tool into the model builder, then filling out the tool for separately for landuse, slope, and soils. This creates an output that needs to be reclassified. Reclassifying ranks the best to worst features for each landuse, slope, and soil. Th...