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Revision as of 16:39, 19 December 2013
Contents
Introduction
About The Tutorial
Intro to GRASS GIS
ArcMap
About ArcMap
Setup and Data
Open ArcMap and create a new map layout, making sure to set the workspace to known folders.
The following data files used are:
- 1. littlered.shp - The start location of little red.
- 2. gramma.shp - End location Gramma's cottage.
- 3. landcover.shp - The land cover types present.
- 4. elevation.shp - Elevation points for the area.
- 5. AOI.shp - Area of interest polygon that defines study area.
Add all of the above layers to the data frame.
Interpolation
In order to obtain the slope factor we first need to create a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from our elevation points.
The DEM will be interpolated using the Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW)method and will be created with 500 m resolution. This is obtained with ArcMap's IDW tool.
ArcToolBox/SpatialAnaylstTools/interpolation/IDW
The Z field is contained in the attribute elevation, the output cell size will be 500 m and variable search radius of 12 points (default value).
Figure :Screenshot of IDW Tool
Figure : Digital Elevation model of AOI from IDW Interpolation
Determining Slope
A Slope raster is created using the Slope tool of ArcToolbox, this will use the previously created DEM and give slope in percent rise with a z factor of 1.
ArcToolBox/SpatialAnaylstTools/Surface/Slope
Figure : Slope Tool
Figure : Percent Slope of AOI
Polygon to Raster
The land cover polygon must be converted to raster in order for it to be used for cost anaysis. The type conversion is done using the Polygon to Raster tool in ArcToolbox where the raster value assigned will be based on the "type" field such that polygon value that overlaps the middle of each 500 m cell defines the land cover assigned.
ArcToolBox/ConversionTools/ToRaster/PolygontoRaster
Figure : Polygon To Raster Tool
Figure : Raster of Landcover
Cost Reclassification
Both the Slope Raster and Land cover raster must be reclassified with cost values based on the percent slope and land cover types respectively. As per the originally specified difficulty and likelihood of wolf factor outlined in the introduction above each raster is re-classed with the Reclassify tool. The reclassification will be based on the SOMETHING and Type fields for slope and land cover respectively.
ArcToolBox/SpatialAnaylstTools/Reclass/Reclassify
Figure : Reclassify Tool with at left: Slope parameters, land cover parameters
Figure : Raster of slope cost, Raster of land cover cost
GRASS GIS
About GRASS
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System