GIST 601A – Lab 11, Rasters
TOTAL POINT VALUE: 20 points
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
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You can complete your assignment on this page.
Please only use black font color when completing the assignment.
Turn in your completed question responses as a Word document AND submit a PDF document
of your answers. Use the upload feature within Lesson 9 – Raster GIS page on the gistonline
course site.
The filename for your completed assignment should be: GIST601_Lab11_yourname
o For example, if I were submitting this assignment the filename for my PDF and Word
file would be: GIST601_Lab11_ipatten
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Chang, pages 87-88; Tasks 1, 2, and 3
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To submit:
o Task 1:
 Answer question Q1
What are the x- and y- coordinates at the upper-left corner of menanbuttes?
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Answer question Q2
Can you verify your answer to Q1 is correct by referring to the x- and ycoordinates at the lower-left corner as listed in the header file information?
Task 2:
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Answer question Q3
Can you verify that tmrect.bil is stored in the band interleaved by line format?
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Answer question Q4
What is the pixel size (in meters) of tmrect.bil?
Task 3:
 Answer question Q5
mwcounties_gd has 157 rows and 223 columns. If you had used 2500 for the
Output cell size, how many rows would the output grid have?
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GIST 601A – Lab 12, Using Raster Tools
TOTAL POINT VALUE: 60 points
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
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Please only use black font color when completing the assignment.
Turn in your completed classification method description (Word and PDF format) and PDF of
map. Use the upload feature within Lesson 9 – Raster GIS page on the gistonline course site.
In the Lesson 9 lecture there is a discussion about mosaicing and reclassifying data. For this assignment
the data that you will need is located at GISTData\FLCounty.
1. The data provided covers the State of Florida. Choose a 6 county area, adjacent counties would work
best, and you are going to use the "fema" shapefile data within each county folder you have chosen for
this task. NOTE: You should ask yourself the question “do all counties have this dataset available?”
before getting too deep into the analysis process.
2. You need to convert the shapefiles to rasters and mosaic the data.
3. Please reclassify your data according to flood zones that are suitable and unsuitable for housing
development. You will have to do some research to figure out which zones fit into each category.
4. Provide a Word document with the classification method you chose (i.e., what number means which
value) and which values fit into that category. Please submit this word document with your assignment.
5. Create a base map for your final mosaic'd data set. Export as PDF
What to submit:
 Zip the final mosaic'd raster to your Lab9 folder (you need to create this folder) in your personal
Box folder, Labs subfolder space.
o The filename for the zipfile should be: GIST601_Lab12_yourname
 For example, if I were submitting this assignment the filename for my PDF and
Word file would be: GIST601_Lab12_ipatten
 Word document with the classification method
o Turn in your completed classification method description (Word and PDF format). Use
the upload feature within Lesson 9 – Raster GIS page on the gistonline course site.
o The filename for your completed assignment should be: GIST601_Lab12a_yourname
 For example, if I were submitting this assignment the filename for my PDF and
Word file would be: GIST601_Lab12a_ipatten
 PDF of map
o Turn in your completed PDF of map. Use the upload feature within Lesson 9 – Raster
GIS page on the gistonline course site.
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The filename for your completed assignment should be: GIST601_Lab12b_yourname
 For example, if I were submitting this assignment the filename for my PDF and
Word file would be: GIST601_Lab12b_ipatten
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