Oil Spill Maps

Hurricane Wilma

In 2005 Hurricane Wilma hit the Florida keys on October 19 2005 causing a surge of eight feet flooding the city.


This map shows elevation and bathymetry of Key West. Based on this map you can see the eastern half of the island is extremely vulnerable based on its low elevation.

This map of infrastructure shows how most structures are in the flooding zone. If all stucture below eight feet elevation flooded the town would not be sustainable without hospitals and transportation.

This map shows the type of land that would be flooded if the surge effected all land under eight feet. The type of land most effected would be developed land. It also shows how only a small portion of the island is out of the flood zone.

Final

Powerpoint

Summary

This lab consisted of managing labels, working with spacial analysis tools, and a brief introduction to 3D modeling. The lessons were completed through a ERSI training site. I like doing the exersizes becuase I always learn a great deal and the steps are easy to follow.

Week 10

This map shows the four top land owners in Gulf County. This lab was pretty straight forward. It involved creating new shapefiles from the original layer, joining raw data, calculating new values from the attribute table, and summarizing data.

Vector Analysis II 3/22

1) I used the intercept tool with the water buffer and road buffer layers to create a new class from the common intersecting features. There was no difference from its results and the results from the instructions.

2) I used the erase tool to exclude the conservation areas from potential camping sites. I used this tool because it allowed me to create a new featured class that excluded conservation areas.

3) There were 79 features in the layer. The area of the largest feature was 7765034.49356 square meters. The area of the smallest feature was 748.114462 square meters.

Week 7

This Lab involved editing feature shapefiles and classes, and digitizing features using many new ArcMap tools. Although the ESRI virtual campus courses take a lot of time to complete I enjoy doing them because the lessons are thorough and helpful. By the time I finished all four lessons the map was easy to create.