Exercise 1 : Analyzing a Data Model

To: Sonali Soneji
From: Walrus Floyd, President

Admiral Electric corporation has asked us to prepare a proposal to create $50,000,000 worth of urban amenities in Boston. The Chairman of Admiral Electric saw a television program about environmental injustice (the proposition that historically, lower income, and other marginalized groups consistently seem to have more noxious land uses in their neigborhood) and as a result, he wants to spend some of his personal fortune to compensate. Your task is to analyze the situation in Boston with regard to environmental justice. Please prepare a confidential report with an appendix of maps and charts (not to be shared with the client.) that will help us understand the truth to this E.I. theory in the Boston context.

Thanks,
Walrus

Exercise 2 : Exploring Data Formats
 

• Setting up a control map in a standard projection to use as a reference for aligning all other data sets.
• Rectifying an aerial photograph with an unknown (presumed non-orthagonal) geometric referencing system to a known system.
• Rectifying a scanned map with an unknown (presumed non-orthagonal) geometric referencing system to a known system.
• Heads up digitizing
• Registering an unknown (presumed orthagonal) geometric referncing system of an Autocad drawing to a known system.
• Converting GIS export formats

Exercise 3 : Sieve Mapping

Determining riparian buffers for streams and canals based on slope.

(Assume : Steep streams need smaller buffers due to smaller flood plains.)

Exercise 4 : Interpolation : Creating a TIN from contour map