Vector Analysis: Finding the Best Campsites
Have you ever tried to find that perfect camping spot? In this assignment, we were asked to locate possible campsites within the De Soto National Forest near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. These sites had to be within 300m of existing roads, within 500m of rivers or 150m of lakes, and could not be located within existing conservation areas.
To accomplish this task, we used three primary geoprocessing tools: Buffer, Union, and Erase. The roads layer was buffered to 300m using a fixed distance buffer, and the rivers and lakes were buffered to 500m and 150m respectively using a variable distance buffer. These two buffered layers were then overlaid using the Union tool to locate all the areas that fell within both the roads buffered layer and and the water buffered layer. Areas that fell within conservation areas were then excluded using the Erase tool. Finally, the campsites polygons were ranked into three different classes (Good, Better, and Best) based on the size of each polygon, with larger polygons ranking higher than smaller polygons.
To accomplish this task, we used three primary geoprocessing tools: Buffer, Union, and Erase. The roads layer was buffered to 300m using a fixed distance buffer, and the rivers and lakes were buffered to 500m and 150m respectively using a variable distance buffer. These two buffered layers were then overlaid using the Union tool to locate all the areas that fell within both the roads buffered layer and and the water buffered layer. Areas that fell within conservation areas were then excluded using the Erase tool. Finally, the campsites polygons were ranked into three different classes (Good, Better, and Best) based on the size of each polygon, with larger polygons ranking higher than smaller polygons.
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