American FactFinder: (https://factfinder.census.gov/) NOTE: The subsections for each bulleted step below tell you how to perform the task. Visit AFF >> Advanced Search >> SHOW ME ALL Filter to Congressional District Click Geographies on left-hand side of screen Select “Congressional District” from the dialog dropdown Select “All Congressional Districts (115th Congress…)” […]
FORS7690
The Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program – National Sampling Design and Estimation Procedures (http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/20371) FIA standards: PDF page 24 (starting w/ last paragraph) Plot Layout: PDF page 39 Derivation of population estimates: PDF page 53 Sampling Error: PDF page 69 Used by FIA to reflect the accuracy of the […]
11. USFS’ Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)
The goal for this lab is three-fold. First, this one is easy, you will learn how to submit queries against the desktop version of the EVALIDator. Second, you will explore the relationship between the volume estimate, sampling error, and the area sampled - this one requires you to think. Finally, […]
Lab 7. FIA EVALIDator (desktop query)
There are two components to lab 6. First you will dump your 10 Garmin GPSMAP64 GPS data points and will view them in ArcMap. After this, you will use both the Garmin and the Trimble units to map the greenspace in front of Warnell. Your deliverable for this […]
GPS data collection I…
Vector Data Creation – Digitizing I Digitizing: “the art and science of connect-the-dots” (Lowe 2016) Digitizing in ArcMap is fairly simple. You: create a point, line, or polygon feature class (inside your file geodatabase) * this includes adding the appropriate fields in the attribute table load a georeferenced data source […]
Data Creation – Digitizing (FGDB)
I might either add topics or move a topic to Part II if we don’t cover it before the document is due. I will announce any changes during class. These are the topics I would like you to document in your notebook. You can format the instructions as a Word […]
FORS 7690 How-To Notebook (Part I)
Global Positioning System (GPS) About: The 24 satellites that make up the GPS space segment are orbiting the earth 11,000 to 12,000 miles above us. They are constantly moving, making two complete orbits in less than 24 hours. These satellites are travelling at speeds of roughly 7,000 miles an […]
GPS
Normalizing data: the process of organizing data into tables in such a way that the results of using the database are always unambiguous as intended. Download this dataset and copy it to your C:\ drive workspace and uncompress it. Load the Buyer2010_gt25ac table to ArcMap. Save your ArcMap project to your C:\ drive […]
12. OpenRefine for normalizing data
Anatomy of a property mapping project You receive a request from a client who is planning for upcoming harvests. They need the following: Total stand acreage Acreage of each land cover type The UTM zone 17N X & Y coordinates of the three proposed logging deck sites Maps showing the most […]
Anatomy of a property mapping project
The Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program – National Sampling Design and Estimation Procedures (http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/20371) FIA standards: PDF page 24 (starting w/ last paragraph) Plot Layout: PDF page 39 Derivation of population estimates: PDF page 53 Sampling Error: PDF page 69 Used by FIA to reflect the accuracy of the […]