Week 10- Homeland Security PROTECT Lab

This is a map of a 3mile buffer around the NORAD entrance and also an inset map zoomed in on a 500ft buffer on the Cheyenne Mountain Heliport with roads included.



This is a map of the Secured Ingress and Egress points entering the 500ft Cheyenne Mountain Heliport buffer. I had no issues or pitfalls with this lab at all other than a small problem displaying my light of sight in another deliverable. I ended up opening a new ArcMap and applying instructions from Amber by phone and everything came out ok. Reasoning behing why it wouldnt show up on the map that I had built my other deliverables on, I have no idea. OFF TO THE FINAL PROJECT!!!!

Week 9- Homeland Security PREPARE

This is a screen shot of my layers in ARC for the Week 9 Homeland Security Lab.

Week 8- Law Enforcement

These are my map submissions for the Week 8 Lab. This lab was a good refresher on some things and was fun for me to do. I had no pitfalls or problems. Instructions were clear and results came out fairly well in my opinion.

Week 7 Location Decisions: On Your Own

Daytona Bound

This is my Power Point Presentation of the Week 7 Lab Activity. This was pretty similar to last weeks lab, which made it alittle easier to go through. I had no big issues other than at first not having my Euclidean Distance not fit the county boundry. I had realized I had not set my extent and my mask in the Environments before I had started my map. After I did that Everything fit fine and I feel good about my presentation.

Week 6- Location Descisions

This is a map showing two different weighted overlays of different criteria based on the couples requirements. The map on the left showing equal distribution of the 4 criteria at a 25/25/25/25 ratio. I used the green to red color scheme to show the best areas that would suit the couple the best. I also highlighted three tracts that I thought would be best with a white color outlined in red. The map to the right shows the same information with different importance to each criteria at a 40/40/10/10 ratio. I used the same symbology for this map as well green being good and red being worst. I also highlighted the three best tracts the same way as I did in the first map.



This is a complex map that includes 4 seperate priority maps. One showing the distance from a desired hospital in Alachua County, another is the distance from a desired school, then next two include information of the percentage of people between the ages of 40-49 and the median home values in the county.


This is a basemap of Alachua County, FL. Showing roads, places, and public lands. This map took very little time to complete. Getting everything ready to go such as the environments and projection seemed to consume most of the time in this map.

Week 5 Impact Assessments

These are maps created by using the ESRI exercises in Week 5 Impact Assessments assignment. All of these exercises were pretty straightforward as always with the ESRI exercises. These maps include information about Student Occupancy in Pewter City, a buffer of the Impact of traffic in an area of Pewter City and also a a map of Economic Performance of Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry.

Oil Spill Participation Post Part 2-

GIS is used in as a useful tool in many different disaster situations. One way to involve GIS is to predict what might happen in a possible disaster. Some disaster relief efforts are totally based on damage models predicted on a computer. It is also used to help government officials and other decision makers locate where they will establish their medical centers and other disaster relief stations, and could help the homeless and others find their ways to shelter and to hospitals. And finally another way it can be used is to assess damage caused by the storm and to record damage costs. Maps could possibly be made to show damage before and after the storm, and then follow up maps to show recovery efforts and status on roads and so on.


In the past week we have researched the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. GIS is also used in situations like this. It can be used to map daily photos of the spill and how much it has spread. And by the use of Google Earth it can help show people around the world exactly where it is at the time. Projected photos of the spill can also be made to predict where the oil is heading and be able to give certain areas warning about the presence of the oil on nearby beaches and bays. Using information by the NOAA, maps can be formed to show animals that could be in danger of the contamination such as anything from crab and shrimp that will affect the local fishing for seafood, to birds and reptiles that live near the coastal waters.