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GEO 426 – Final Project

GEO 426 – Final Project. Crisp – Slowing The Gypsy Moth Poster. Pt. I Data Sources. The Base Layer Data. Obtained States, Counties, Area Boundaries From Gypsy Moth Foundation website at : http://www.gmsts.org/.

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GEO 426 – Final Project

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  1. GEO 426 – Final Project Crisp – Slowing The Gypsy Moth Poster

  2. Pt. I Data Sources

  3. The Base Layer Data • Obtained States, Counties, Area Boundaries From Gypsy Moth Foundation website at : http://www.gmsts.org/

  4. Information about trap placements is stored in a database at MSU in the lab that I work at Data is represented as x,y coordinate pairs and has numerical insect capture as the z Most recent data from 2007 The Thematic Data

  5. select A.utm_east, A.utm_north,B.ZONE, A.state, A.county, A.usgs_code, A.grid, A.total_catch from gypsy.gm_historical A, gypsy.quad B where A.usgs_code = B.USGS_CODE and A.year=2007 and A.total_catch>-1 order by A.state How data was extracted

  6. Created a surface from the dataset • Brought the resulting delimited text into a shapefile • Created a point coverage and converted to raster with IDW • Searched 4 adjacent points within 1 KM radius because this is how the traps are laid out • Result was my interpolated surface with catch total as the Z value

  7. Pt. II Map Purpose

  8. The Map Purpose • My lab needs a poster displayed in the Nat. Sci Building to represent what we do. • This is intended to be viewed by a general audience of students and faculty or staff • It is intended as a map that tells a story and to be read as opposed to glanced over.

  9. Pt. III Map Design

  10. Moth Presence • Borrowed idea of embedded hill shading to represent moth presence as ‘elevated’ trap capture Breaks at 10/30/100/300-1000 Accomplished this with an AML script to shade a tiff with the Z value of the Grid surface

  11. Bringing it together with project activities Integrating with the existing data

  12. The generally infested area • Generally infested area represents no trapping, no actions. It a area where things are overrun • Represented in solid gray-green • A neutral color

  13. The monitoring areas • This is where traps delineate the leading edge of the insects spread • Defines the action area • 2 areas varied lightness of blue because order is implied primary - secondary

  14. Action Area • This is where treatment occurs on isolated colonies ahead of the expansion front • Used lines and arrows to delineate and infer movement • No solid continuous color – why?

  15. Finishing Touches • Added text ‘explainers’ to tell the story behind the project • The legend is a quick story as opposed to only labels • Counties are labeled because those are the smallest civil action units • Questions?

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