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GISC9301
Introduction to ArcGIS- Deliverable 2

Darshana Shrikrishna Sawant

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Darshana Sawant
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Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

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darshana.sawant2511@gmail.com

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October 31, 2019

Mark Buma
Niagara College, Canada

Dear Mr. Buma,

Re: Submission of Deliverable 2- GISC9301-01 ArcGIS Applications

Please accept this letter as my formal submission of Deliverable 2 for GISC9301

ArcGIS Applications.
This Assignment is comprised of the question & answers based on chapter 7-13
from the book ‘Getting to know ArcGIS Desktop’ by Michael Law and Amy Collins. I have done
all the exercises that are provided in that book to find the answers to the questions that you
have given in the assignment.
In the attached word document, I have my complete report with all the question-
answers. I have attached few screenshots where they were needed. I tried using few of the
word features to make it easy for you to view.
Kindly review the attached Word Document and let me know if you have any queries about
the answers that I have given. You can contact me if you need any further information. Thank
you for your time and consideration and I look forward to hearing from you about the same.

Best regards,

Darshana Sawant
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DELIVERABLE 2
Table of Contents
Chapter 8:..............................................................................................................................................3
a) Give three examples of quantitative data........................................................................................3
b) Give three examples of categorical data.........................................................................................3
c) Which of the 6 classification methods that ArcGIS offers would you use to represent the
following data sets (explain your choice):...............................................................................................3
d) For any frequency distribution histogram of classified data, what does the y-axis typically
represent?...............................................................................................................................................4
e) For any frequency distribution histogram of classified data, what does the x-axis typically
represent?...............................................................................................................................................4
f) Knowing what you now know (after completing Chapter 7), re-answer question 2.c. from
Assignment #1. Highlight changes that you would make knowing how graduated symbology and iconic
symbolization using classification work...................................................................................................5
Chapters 11-13.......................................................................................................................................6
a) What is the total surface area of the Niagara College Glendale Campus Building in m 2? ..............6
b) What is the total building footprint size (in m2) of the Greenhouse Facility....................................7
c) What is area of the wetland lagoon south of the campus...............................................................9

Table of Figures
Figure 1 Niagara College Glendale Campus.................................................................................................6
Figure 2 Niagara College Glendale campus Polygon....................................................................................7
Figure 3 Niagara College Glendale Campus Attribute Table........................................................................7
Figure 4 Greenhouse Facility.......................................................................................................................8
Figure 5 Greenhouse Attribute table...........................................................................................................8
Figure 6 Greenhouse Polygon after using cut polygons tool.......................................................................9
Figure 7 Greenhouse Attribute table...........................................................................................................9
Figure 8 Wetland Near Niagara College Glendale Campus........................................................................10
Figure 9 Wetland Lagoon...........................................................................................................................10
Figure 10 Conversion of area into Hectares [ha].......................................................................................11
Figure 11 Conversion of Shape_leng (perimeter) into Meters [m]...........................................................11
Figure 12 Attribute table for Wetland Lagoon...........................................................................................11
Figure 13 Editing the Wetland Lagoon Polygon to add berm....................................................................12
Figure 14 Attribute table for the Wetland after including berm................................................................12
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Chapter 8:
a) Give three examples of quantitative data
Ans: Quantitative maps show numeric values in relation to one another on a continuous
scale.
For Example, map of animal/bird population, map of educational institutes in a
province, map of restaurants in a city.

b) Give three examples of categorical data

Ans: The categorical data can be divided into different categories.
For Example, we can divide the educational institutes into different categories such as
High schools, Colleges and Universities. If we are showing the restaurants then we can
categorize them by the cuisines they serve. We can categorize birds as per different
species of birds.

c) Which of the 6 classification methods that ArcGIS offers would

you use to represent the following data sets (explain your choice):
i. Income data for seven distinct neighborhoods in Thorold. The income
data appear to be clustered into ranges of low ($0 to $20,000 per
annum), middle ($40,000 to $70,000) and high ($110,000 to $200,000)
due to the employment base in Thorold.
Ans: We can show this data using Defined Interval method. In this scenario the
intervals are already defined for the different income data.

ii. Air quality Index data (1 to 100 as an index score) for the Niagara
Region. There are 45 monitoring sites distributed evenly across
Niagara. A score of 1 to 40 is acceptable air quality, 41 to 50 is
marginal air quality, 51 to 60 is poor, while 61 to 100 is dangerous to
human health.
Ans: Manual Interval method will be useful in showing such data as the air quality
ranges are different. We need set the class break as well as class range manually to
show the different air quality index data.

iii. The tested IQs (intelligence quotients) of students by school. You are
informed that the mean IQ is 113 for the school districts and that one
standard deviation is 7.54 IQ points.
Ans: We can use Standard Deviation method to represent the data for IQs of students
by school. The standard deviation classification method shows you how much a
feature's attribute value varies from the mean. Here we have the mean value and the
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standard deviation given to us. This can help us to create the class breaks with equal
IQ ranges that are proportional to the Standard Deviation IQ points.

iv. A Raster data set from the TERRA Satellite’s ASTER sensor (near
infrared or NIR band). Each raster cell has a value (digital number or
DN) that ranges from 0 to 255. You are interested in detecting the
location of healthy deciduous trees that will exhibit raster values in a
range of 198 to 212 or a secondary range of 223 to 248.
Ans: We can use Defined Interval method to present this data. Defined interval allows
us to specify an interval size used to define a series of classes with the same value
range.

d) For any frequency distribution histogram of classified data, what

does the y-axis typically represent?
Ans: For any frequency distribution histogram of classified data, the y-axis typically
represents count of features.

e) For any frequency distribution histogram of classified data, what

does the x-axis typically represent?
Ans: For any frequency distribution histogram of classified data,
the x-axis typically represents range of values.
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f) Knowing what you now know (after completing Chapter 7), re-
answer question 2.c. from Assignment #1. Highlight changes that
you would make knowing how graduated symbology and iconic
symbolization using classification work.
As a refresher, here is that question again:
You are given a map of the Niagara Region that is divided into 12 distinct areas, known
as ‘Area Municipalities’ (Niagara-On-The-Lake, Welland, St. Catharines, etc.) by the
Governmental Health Department. They also give you an MS Excel file that details the
number of dead crows and blue jays (birds) that have been found this summer and sent
to a lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba for testing for the presence of the West Nile virus. The
spreadsheet details the following, by dead bird (i.e., each Excel row (record) is one dead
bird):
Species,
Area Municipality the bird was recovered from,
Positive or Negative test result for West Nile virus.
As the Health Department’s GIS consultant, suggest a strategy for symbolizing and
ultimately mapping the data given to you as listed above (no more than four paragraphs
required to do so).
Ans: We can show the data for the West Nile virus in birds by using graduated
symbols. Graduated symbols can help us to visualize the number of birds that
are affected by the West Nile virus easily. We can add the data mentioned
above such as the name of birds, the area from where it was recovered and if
the bird was detected positive or negative for the West Nile virus.
We will use different colors to show the birds that were detected as
positive or negative for the West Nile virus. So, the birds who were detected
positive can be shown in red color wherein the negative birds can be shown in a
blue color. The graduated symbol will change its size as per the number of birds
that are found in each area. Here we can differentiate between the areas where
the virus is stronger by comparing the size of symbols.
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Chapters 11-13
a) What is the total surface area of the Niagara College Glendale
Campus Building in m2? Make a screen capture of the digitized
area atop the Regional DOI to support your answer. Also make a
screen capture of the record within the attribute table that has been
created for this building (make sure all fields have data within
them for each new record you have created by heads-up
digitizing). Both screen captures must be included in your word
document as a part of the answer for this question.
Ans: To get the total surface I first Created a Polygon around the Niagara College Building as
shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 using the vertex. Total Surface area of the Niagara College
Glendale Campus is 6319.00201 m2 as shown in Figure 3 on page no 7.

FIGURE 1 NIAGARA COLLEGE GLENDALE CAMPUS

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FIGURE 2 NIAGARA COLLEGE GLENDALE CAMPUS POLYGON

FIGURE 3 NIAGARA COLLEGE GLENDALE CAMPUS ATTRIBUTE TABLE

b) What is the total building footprint size (in m2) of the Greenhouse
Facility immediately north of the Campus Ring Road? Edit the
polygon that covers the full facility to split it into two polygons
that differentiate between the glassed area and the office area.
What are the areas of these two parts of the building? Again,
support your answer with screen captures.
Ans: The total building footprint size of the Greenhouse Facility is 1992.01778 m 2 as shown in
Figure 4 and Figure 5 on page no. 8.
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FIGURE 4 GREENHOUSE FACILITY

FIGURE 5 GREENHOUSE ATTRIBUTE TABLE

After splitting the Greenhouse Facility into polygons as shown in Figure 6 the area of the
glassed part of Greenhouse is 1606.05824 m2 and the area of the Greenhouse office is
385.959542 m2. (Refer Figure 7)
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FIGURE 6 GREENHOUSE POLYGON AFTER USING CUT POLYGONS TOOL

FIGURE 7 GREENHOUSE ATTRIBUTE TABLE

c) What is area of the wetland lagoon south of the campus,

immediately adjacent to the Niagara escarpment? Express you
answer in Hectares. What is the perimeter length in meters? Edit
the Wetland polygon to include the berm (whiter area of mounded
soil around the lagoon) in a total area calculation of lagoon plus
berm in Hectares. Again, support your answer with screen
captures.
Ans: The are of the wetland lagoon south of the Niagara College Glendale campus is 2.323753
Hectares. The Perimeter length for the water lagoon is 735.23381 m.(refer Figure 12 on page no
11)
After including the berm in the wetland lagoon by editing the vertex as shown in Figure 13 on
page no 11 the area of wetland is 2.854842 Hectares as shown in Figure 14 on page no 12.
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FIGURE 8 WETLAND NEAR NIAGARA COLLEGE GLENDALE CAMPUS

FIGURE 9 WETLAND LAGOON

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FIGURE 10 CONVERSION OF AREA INTO HECTARES [HA]

FIGURE 11 CONVERSION OF SHAPE_LENG (PERIMETER) INTO METERS [M]

FIGURE 12 ATTRIBUTE TABLE FOR WETLAND LAGOON

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FIGURE 13 EDITING THE WETLAND LAGOON POLYGON TO ADD BERM

FIGURE 14 ATTRIBUTE TABLE FOR THE WETLAND AFTER INCLUDING BERM