Week 4: Oil Spill

The above two maps are from this weeks subject of the effects on areas in FL from BP's Deep Water Horizon Oil spill. I choose the Gulf Breeze quad to work with. The first map displays NOAA's ESI land types and booming operations in the area. The second map displays fauna and economic impacts the oil spill can have on the region, as well as what agency is in charge of what. I was unable to figure out how to get the ESI symbols to denote the fauna (time constraint), but I hope the map was clear nonetheless.

Week 3: Hurricanes

Hurricane Wilma made landfall over Key West, FL on October 19, 2005 as a Cat. 3 storm. The main damage to Key West from Wilma was not as a result of the storm itself (high winds, rain), but from the storm surge cause by the storm. Waves up to 8 feet in height inundated the islands the morning after the storm. Almost 60% of the homes on the islands were under water. The above map displays the elevation and bathymetry of Key West with Key West places and roads displayed. Notice how much of the is island is below the 8 feet elevation of the storm surge.

The map above displays just how much of the island was flooded. The flooded land has been broken down into land types, and a graph has been created to show exactly how much of each kinds of lands were inundated (see graph below for larger image included in above map). Note that more than 68% of the flooded land was developed land (i.e. homes and businesses).

Infrastructure and health facilities have been added to the following map. Notice how both hospitals have been flooded and all schools and churches except for one of each were under water. It also appears that the airport is located on one of the lowest portions of the island (see first map). With this being the case, emphasis should be focused on roads in and out of the island, since roads can be made somewhat "flood proof" by elevating them. Emphasis should also be placed on schools/churches on the highest portion of the island, since they would be the least likely to flood, or at very least, be the first to "dry out" in the case of flooding. These building could be used as staging points and/or shelters for those who chose not to evacuate.

The following is a simple graph displaying land types measured in acres and square miles affected by the storm surge.

In closing, is appears the long-term sustainability of the island is not positive. With the highest elevation on the island being only just above 12 feet, anyone living or working on the island should be willing to rebuild/repair anytime a moderate to major storm comes across the Keys. Emphasis should be placed on public structures on the higher portions of Key West to serve as launching points for aid or as shelters.

Final

Ok here are the links:



http://students.uwf.edu/lrc13/powerpoint.pdf
http://students.uwf.edu/lrc13/description.pdf

Week 11

No problems with the 2 above maps. I just wasn't sure if I needed to have all the items necessary for "good map design". But I figured better safe than sorry.



I wasn't sure which part of the exercise needed to be posted, so I just screen shot the entire thing. Hope I got what I was suppose to!!

In the Spatial Analyst exercise "Reclassify a Raster Using an ASCII Remap File", I got the same error message I see a couple of other students got, and was unable to finnish that exercise. However, it didn't seem to have any effect on the following exercise's map, posted above.


No problem with the above map.

Week 9

1) I tried all the overlay methods just for grins. However, I found that the "intersect" method returned the same results as the "union" method, without having to select where the water buffer and the road buffer both equaled "1" and exporting the results to a new shapefile.

2) I used the "erase" overlay to remove areas that were inside the conservation areas.

3) There were a total of 79 features, with the largest being : 7,765,034.49356 sq. meters and the smallest being: 748.114463 sq. meters.

Spring Break

Not too much trouble with this lab. Kind of reminded me of Lab 5, but without the stress!!

Lab 7: Data Editing

No real issues with this lab. I just would have liked it to look a little neater, especially the athletic fields.