For the second part of your How-To notebook, you will design, execute, assess, revise and repeat a spatial analysis component of your research project. Specifically, I want you to:
- Identify one spatial analysis component of your research project; those of you working on a non-thesis degree, find a project that interests you (harvesting on family land, drone volumetrics, etc). In this step, you need to consider:
- what the problem, concern, or issue is
- why the outcome is important (why do you need this information)
- how the output will be used to address this part of your project
- Design a spatial analysis to address this component of your project
- document the location of your inputs
- describe your expected output(s)
- what are your inputs
- what methods will you use
- what coordinate system, spatial scale, etc
- Execute the spatial analysis
- create a spatial model to execute your analysis
- Assess the results
- document the output location of your results
- describe the anticipated outcomes of your analysis
- describe the unanticipated outcomes of your analysis
- generate needed tabular summaries and graphs
- paste screenshots of spatial data or insert tabular summaries into PowerPoint or Google Slide deck; provide a short summary of each (what it is you are looking at, why is it important, how it applies to the research, etc)
- Revise your spatial analysis
- present these results to your major professor – if you can explain what you have done and how it contributes to your research, then you probably know what you are doing.
- together, come up with an improvement or modification to the analysis
- Repeat your analysis
- apply those improvements to your initial analysis
- Assess the results.
- repeat step 4
- also, consider how the modification to your initial analysis affected the output; provide visual and/or tabular evidence of these differences
- provide a short description of those differences and why they are different, if the differences are of any importance, etc
- Document, document, document!!! By the end of this exercise, you will have
- designed a relevant spatial analysis,
- executed it,
- documented and considered the output,
- revised the spatial analysis,
- re-analyzed, and
- re-assessed your analysis.
The deliverable I am expecting is the well-documented Power Point slide deck you generate throughout this process.