Week 3: Environmental Update

This week was spent doing a lot of interesting things, First, many of the spatial characteristics in our area of interest (New York, esp. the Capital Region) were processed. I found the watershed data for the areas of interest and calculated it spatially (its tabular data, available from the USGS, can be joined to the areas of interest) and I output an intersection of the demographic data in the watershed. The photo is below:

Additionally, I calculated the rainfall statistics for each of the watersheds into average raster layers. I had some trouble getting them to output correctly, but finally they did turn out as well. They did seem to have some error in processing, as they output in a coordinate system that was not desired, but I will work on that.

The rest of the week was dedicated to writing a research proposal. After having it checked by Dr. Meierdiercks, I will put it up on the blog or the website.