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Spatial Analyst Tutorial

This document provides an overview of various spatial analysis techniques that can be used to find a new school site location in Stowe, Vermont. It describes preparing input datasets, deriving slope and distance rasters, reclassifying values, weighting and combining datasets, and performing cost path analysis to determine the optimal location.

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Spatial Analyst Tutorial

This document provides an overview of various spatial analysis techniques that can be used to find a new school site location in Stowe, Vermont. It describes preparing input datasets, deriving slope and distance rasters, reclassifying values, weighting and combining datasets, and performing cost path analysis to determine the optimal location.

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Spatial Analyst Tutorial

Preparation

Copy the spatial folder from \\cahe9345\classdata\soils468\data to your own data folder.

Hillshade
Creates a shaded relief raster from an elevation raster and an illumination source. Combined with transparency, it gives a map a 3 dimensional appearance.

Histogram

Very useful to get a quick measure of how raster data is distributed.

Finding a new school site in Stowe, Vermont


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Input Datasets Derive Datasets Reclassify Datasets Weight and combine datasets

Deriving slope
In ArcGIS slope may be calculated as degrees or as percent. Be aware of the horizontal and vertical units of your datasets reproject or calculate a z-factor if necessary.

Straight line (Euclidean) Distance


Recreation sites Existing schools

Reclassify
Replace values based on new information. Group certain values together Reclassify values to a common scale Convert cells to No Data or assign values to No Data cells.

Reclassify
Recreation sites Existing schools

Weight and combine datasets

Cost path analysis


Calculates the cost of moving across a raster surface based on geographic factors. Requires a source dataset, a cost dataset, and a destination dataset.

Cost path analysis


Reclassify input datasets

Cost path analysis

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