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Introduction to Lab

Background

The Forest Service has funds to create a new campground. The site will be located in northern Utah, on the east side of the Wasatch Range, north of Liberty. You have been tasked with creating a map to present a campground of your own design, reporting some development specifics, and making your plan (a map) and GIS files available via your website.

The manipulation and creation of vector data (points, polylines and polygons) is a fundamental part of your GIS toolkit. In ArcGIS, the manipulation, modification, drawing, and digitizing of vector data is referred to as editing. We need to build proficiency in these tasks before we can do vector-based spatial analyses (i.e. Lab 05 & Week 05).

Potential Campground Site, Liberty, Utah

Lab Objectives

Meets Course Learning Outcomes 2, 4 & 5.

Lab Tasks Overview

IMPORTANT

Help! I am getting an error saying I don’t have the required license to run the Zonal Statistics tool!

You will need to activate the Spatial Analyst extension to run some of the tools needed in this lab.

​ In ArcMap > Customize drop down > Extensions > check all the boxes and close.

You will have to do this with every time you log into the Quinney labs and once per install on your personal computer.

Task 1 - Create Campground Design Map

You will design a campground for the US Forest Service at a specific site near Liberty Utah (approximate location: 425,666 E 4,578,749 N meters in the NAD 83 UTM Zone 12N coordinate system).

You will need to create 3 shapefiles:

See the “what to submit” section below for map details.

Click here for specific instructions for Task 1.

Task 2 - Share GIS Data for Campground Design in Different Formats

There are many ways to share your vector data, and/or map including:

*.MPK

For this task, you will only be sharing your project as an ArcGIS Desktop Map Package (*.MPK map package) which bundles your map project and all the dependent data files,

But you need to be familiar and comfortable with each of these file types.

To reinforce these concepts, a brief “quiz” accompanies this lab to help promote understanding of these core concepts.

Link to Canvas Lab 4 Quiz page

Click here for specific instructions for Task 2.

Detailed Instructions

Data for Lab

Data for this lab includes:

  1. a fictional point file containing optional campground sites for Step 4 (data credits S Belmont), and
  2. a landcover layer for Weber County (SWReGAP: http://earth.gis.usu.edu/swgap/landcover.html) for use in Step 4.

Lab04_data folder available for download here. (must be logged into Canvas)


What to Submit

Your webpage should include a brief write up that provides contextual background information about the campground design project.

Make sure your lab conforms to the general lab submission guidelines. Submit a URL for this lab’s webpage.


Additional Resources

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