Goals

• Learn how to use aerial images to analyze the environment
• Acquire data from a free source
• Get introduced to open source geographic software

PS: this lesson is available here

Step 2.

• In MapOptix find where you live
• Turn on the base layer titled “AIR PHOTO 1936”
• Take a screenshot of what the land looked like where your house is now and add it to the google doc. Be sure to:
  • scale it appropriately (approximately 1:2400)
  • turn off base map overlays

Step 3.

• Turn on the layer “AIR PHOTO 2017”
• Find and record the creek closest to your house
• By turning on the “Environment” layer it is easier to locate streams

Step 4.

• Under the environments tab there is a wetland tab
• Along the top bar there is an option called Query/Info/Measure
• Measure the area (in square meters) of the wetland closest to your house
• Record area and add a screen capture of the polygon you made

Step 5.

• Turn on Flood Management Areas
• Under the Geology tab turn on Landslide Hazards
• Turn on Metro Habitat
• Record whether or not your house falls into any of these polygons. If it does record which ones.

Step 6.

Answer question 5