Project - Albertine Rift Pipeline Analysis

ENV 761 - Landscape GIS   |   Spring 2024   |   Instructors: Peter Cada & John Fay  |  

Overview

Our first lab project consists of setting up a geospatial analysis to facilitate evaluation of two proposed pipeline routes in Uganda.

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:point_right: Recordings

Learning Objectives

  • Distilling actionable GIS tasks from vague project objectives
  • Setting up a project workspace
  • Create a project workspace and gather/prepare necessary data
    • Examine and repair provided data: guessing at unknown projections
    • Obtaining public domain data from spatial data clearinghouses
    • Reprojecting data
  • Executing spatial analyses
    • Buffering features
    • Summarizing raster data found within polygon zones
    • Tabulating areas of intersection among polygon features
    • Clipping line features with polygon features
  • Reporting results

Important dates:

Have an initial set of results by 25-Jan