EXERCISE 1 .MXD DOWNLOAD

Surface Analysis Hillshade — Now you are ready to create a Hillshade layer. Save all your changes. You will use it to georeference your image. Right click on your DEM file again. In this section, you learn how to add tabular data that contains geographic locations in the form of x,y coordinates to your map. You need to connect to other folders manually.

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Exercise 1 .mxd

Describe your assessment process in words or using a flow chart. Do this by clicking the save button. Results Start this section with a short paragraph that explains exercse items presented in the subsections. May the expected shaking in response to an earthquake be higher at each site? You will use the final product of this exercise i.

Access the table by choosing the View Link Table icon from the Georeferencing toolbar. Back in the symbology window notice that the ranges have changed to reflect the new classification scheme.

For today's lab, we loaded shapefiles and coverages directly from the class locker into ArcMap. Now you are able to see, at the same time, the boundary of the city and the block group boundaries. The first sentence of the caption should say in general terms what is plotted.

Interpretations should not be mixed with observations. Change this setting by choosing a different color ramp to improve the visualization of the terrain. Zachary Zachary 5, 2 2 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges. To help the institute make an informed decision concerning the construction of schools at the proposed sites, you will create a series of maps that can be used in hazard assessment. The cells that are displayed in black have the flow of at least upstream cells flowing through them.

To see the data for all of the block groups, move your mouse over the name of the layer in the data frame and do a right click.

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Click OK and go back to the "add data" window. It does not save all the data you are using - only the file locations, date frame properties, symbol information and the like that are needed for ArcMAP to recreate the same state of your work that existed when you saved the file.

You will spend most of your time in this map document window, experimenting with good ways to symbolize a data set and overlaying various spatial data sets to create a map. To create and save your maps, see the steps shown in section A1-b in the Part .mdx of this exercise. Save all files related to this exercise to your USB drive.

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Now change the name of the view from layers to Lab Exercise 1. Enter "kml" and search for "Map to KML". Answer the following questions for each site: We suggest you create a sub-directory called At this point, we should clear any selected features so none of them are highlighted. Under "Symbology" select "Graduated Color". Adding Point Data e. It's targeted at teachers and profs, but a lot can be pulled from them as the majority are targeted at beginners. Choose a black triangle and increase its size to Select the 'camborder polygon' data set, which contains the border of the city of Cambridge, and then Add it.

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Table of Contents — In the Table of Contents, include the names of all the headings and subheadings in the main text and relevant page numbers.

Is this map in agreement with your observations from above?

Geographic coordinate systems GCS most commonly have units in decimal degrees measuring degrees of longitude x-coordinates and degrees of latitude y-coordinates. Another way to map the class locker to a local drive is to run this command in a DOS command window: Recommendations Conclude the assessment report by proposing recommendations for school construction at each site.