Vector Geoprocessing
GIS Lab Exercise 4 By: Evan Kebus Goal: The goal of this lab is to be able to determine the land use types where black bears are found in central Marquette County, Michigan based on GPS locations of black bears. In this lab you will need to determine bear occurrence in proximity to streams and export this data. You will also need to find suitable bear habitat based within areas managed by the Michigan DNR while excluding areas near urban or built up lands. Finally you will need to be able to generate an aesthetically pleasing cartographic output and then create a model of the procedures that you followed to determine suitable bear habitat in Marquette County, MI. Methods: The first objective for this lab is to be able to identify different aspects of the data that you will be working with. Also identifying the types of files you will be using and the coordinate system. The second objective asks you...
