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 The objectives for this lab were to classify an aerial photograph based on LULC and conduct ground truthing with an accuracy percentage. In the lab steps, one thing mentioned is the importance of time management, which was the main struggle for this lab. I believe that I accurately depicted the LULC on a map, but I did use Level I classifications rather than all classifications from Level II.

  The Student Learning Outcomes for this lab were to:  1) Interpret the tone and texture of aerial photographs  2) Identify land features in an aerial photograph based on several visual attributes 3) Compare similar land features in true color and false color IR photographs I achieved all these objectives with minor hiccups after part one (interpreting tone & texture). The frustrating part of the first lab was my initial mistake of adding symbology/title and attribute name immediately after creating a polygon. When it was time to create labels, I had duplicate labels that I could not remove, even after consulting ArcGIS Pro Help. I ended up starting over, and it was truly smooth sailing for the rest of the lab. Designing maps was tricky, since a North Arrow and Scale Bar were  not needed because of the photograph's nature. I wasn't sure what scale the photograph was or the N/S orientation. I ended up changing the symbology from graduated colors (light-dark) to ju...

  Brooke Skladany GIS 5050 final project presentation transcript   This is my GIS 505 final project. Objective number one was to define and quantify environmentally sensitive lands imposed by the transmission line. To discover which conservation lands intersected with the preferred corridor, I ran a geoprocessing analysis on the intersecting features. From there, I opened the attribute table to figure out which land types would be imposed on by the corridor. I used summary statistics to calculate the total acreage. First, I needed to find out where the wetlands intersected with the preferred corridor, so I ran an Analysis on which areas intersected of the two. After I extracted the intersections, I had to figure out which of the wetlands were wet (lacustrines & riverines) and dry (palustrines). To do so, I selected by attributes and created 2 new layers of the previously mentioned. I used Calculate Geometry to calculate the areas in acres. From there, I was able ...

  For this lab assignment, the goals were to georeference a northern and southern UWF campus map, interpret residual and root mean square errors, digitize a new building and road, practice polynomial transformations, create a multiple ring buffer to display an eagles nest in relation to campus, and create a hyperlink in ArcGIS to store on a personal drive. I believe I accomplished all these things pretty well. It took me a couple tries to figure out the best method to add control points while georeferencing, which was basically trial and error. I thought creating the polygon for the new building was fun - it reminded me a little of using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Overall, I think my map accurately depicts the learning outcomes for this lab. Per usual, I had some trouble fitting everything on the limited map area, but I think it turned out alright. On my first lab, I was hoping to get more space between the borders of the legends. For this lab, I figured out how to do th...