By Andrew Hayes, Match Kay, and Treasure McMahanIn my previous posts, I describe the labs conducted by my lab group and I, measuring land use and cover change in and around Lewis & Clark College. My lab group and I created a story map on ArcGIS to visualize the work we have done in the past several weeks. By creating a story map, we succinctly summarize and display the results and larger implications of these labs as a microcosm of the effects of the anthropocene. We began by uploading the map of our data we had made in a previous lab to illustrate the quantitative data we collected. The aim of our project can be summarized with the four framing questions: How has Anthropocentric land usage affected the area in and around Lewis & Clark College, Collins View, and River View Natural Area over time? What spatial changes have occured in and around these observed areas? How has land use changed over time to better suit human use? And how can ground-truthing satellite data show the details of the anthropocene? The story map begins with background information on our observed areas and on conducting ground-truthing to measure land use and cover change. The story map then moves to the quantitative data displayed on the ArcGIS map. After discussing the micro-climate data and spatial sampling, the story map continues into the procedure of data analysis and the results of our analysis. The following section describes the representation of our spatial data and includes four images of the observed area from 1939, 1961, 1982, and 2018. Continuing, we discuss a panel with four experts in the area that provided the qualitative data for our research. The final section of the story map includes the larger implications of the study in observing spatial patterns and temporal change, limitations of and possible improvements to our lab, and ties our framing questions back to our research.
https://lewisandclark.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=ac983e1e42a04ce5bdf3eaf4020128a0
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