Monday, October 13, 2008

!! CLASS CANCELLED TODAY !!

Review For Your Midterms (next Monday)

Remember All Material Up to (but not including) Models are included in exam

Exam Details:
  • In-class
  • Open textbook, notes, Internet
  • No sharing or communication during the exam (in-person, texting, chatting, etc.)
  • All questions will be straight answers. This means there will be no images printed nor files submitted.
  • Partial credit is not to be expected and is available only under specific and unique situations.
  • The exam will be given to you in print and online. You will fill the answers on the print paper and submit it.

Sample Questions
  1. Create a layer representing the slope of Tarrant County. If you create 10 equal classes, what is range that represents the highest values (steepest)?
    1. Data (contains both Tarrant & Denton)
  2. Create a layer representing the distance (in feet) from major roads in Tarrant County. If you create 10 equal classes, what is the range that represents the highest values (furthest)?
    1. If you do not have a major roads file readily available,download pizza demo for major roads (arterials)
  3. Situation: Particular animal species known to always travel within .5 km of a particular vegetation type. If you were to create a reclassification scheme of the distance to this vegetation type, in order to identify possible locations to find the species, (1) how many classes would you create? and (2) what would be the break points of these classes?
  4. If you needed to include population density, that was obtained from the American Factfinder Census website, as an input into suitability analysis, would you use distance-straight line or convert feature to raster?
  5. An analyst used the Raster Calculator to multiply two raster layers together. Afterward, he could not locate the generated Grid file to back up his work? What could he have done to ensure that the result of the Raster Calculator will store the result in a folder of his/her choosing?
  6. Take these two raster files and compute a weighted average. The weight of the d_roads file will be 25% and the wieght of the income file will be 75%. If you create 15 equal classes, what is the range that represents the most suitable class (highest values)? (data)
Questions:
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1 comment:

natalieh said...

Hey Josh...
I need help... any thoughts? I took off early today to come to your afternoon office hours.
I am supposed to do field research this weekend at my site.

Natalie