Below are my labs and exams from Advanced Applications. When available, I've included the final PDF reports.

Lab 1

In this lab, we focused on manual digitization to perform a land cover change analysis. We used historical maps from the late 1800s of the San Juan Islands to digitize land cover, focusing specifically on grassland and forest cover.

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Exam 1

In this exam, I used georeferencing and control points to accurately overlay images to a digital interface, created coded domains to facilitate efficient field names and digitization, and created feature classes within geodatabases to create digitizations.

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Lab 2

In this lab, we worked as a group to use Landsat 8 imagery and create a natural color composite image of the Salish Sea region, as well as a normalized difference of vegetation index and a normalized difference built-up index. To do this, we used raster mosaicking, spectral signature training samples, pixel editor and raster calculator. This lab was an exploration into remote sensing applicat

Exam 2

In this exam, we took the remote sensing analysis skills from lab 2 and applied them to a different type of satellite imagery and a different raster index. For this analysis, I used Landsat 5 imagery and created a normalized difference moisture index for Belize.

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Lab and Exam 3

In module 3, we used Field Maps and Survey123 through ArcGIS online to gain skills with data collection in the field, GPS technologies, and communicating GPS data to the public.

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Final Project

For my final project, I conducted a sea level rise analysis for the Salish Sea bioregion using data from both US and Canadian government sources to understand how different sea level rise scenarios would affect three important features of the Salish Sea coast: Indigenous land, coastal wetlands and shellfish growing areas. I created a story map for my final presentation, which you can view below or here. This project involved analyzing digital elevation data, cleaning and merging data sets from different governmental agencies and running an intersect analysis to understand where rising sea levels will have the greatest effect on the local area. I presented my research at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers conference at Western Washington University in 2022. Future analysis and research is warranted for a deeper understanding of sea level rise in the Salish Sea, but I believe my initial work here

provides a strong starting point for future analysis.

Below are my labs and exams from Advanced Applications. When available, I've included the final PDF reports.

Final Project

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