Sunday, February 18, 2007

Practicing Some More



This is just some exploratory analysis as I try to learn some new tools that will eventually be used in the wolf habitat project.

The map shows the density of hiking trails per square mile, an approximately 100 sq miles buffer around each wilderness area, and wilderness areas symbolized by their distance from the nearest town point feature. This last statistic was gathered by spatially joining the two features. I am not sure what the units are in. The raster map layers I was working with were set to miles, but perhaps the unprojected point layer screwed up the calcualtion. It appears the cooler colors represent higher proximity, but if you get in there and actually measure, something isn't right. But that's why I've still got three months to do this thing.

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