406 Final Project

Welcome to my final project for Geography 406 (Advanced GIS)
I used a GAP Analysis to look for an area to protect for the Kit Fox (Vulpes Macrotis)

Friday, May 18, 2012

Methodology

 First we had to see what the management status of the land was. Current unprotected areas have a status of 4.

Each of the land status codes were queried out of the landmanagement shapefile. The previous map shows the land status of our target area.



Then a table containing all five species and their highly suitable areas was joined to a land cover file from UCSB. This allowed me to select by attributes the most suitable area for each species separately. After each selection a resulting feature class contained the polygons that had achieved a 5/5 score for suitability. The following map shows the Kit Fox highly suitable areas.

One prey animal was shown for reference


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