geospatialRUCSBAtlas

A repo that uses local UCSB examples applied to all of the steps of the Carpentries’ Intro to Raster and Vector Data workshop.

Scripts run parallel to the episodes (ep_01.r ep_02.r … ep_13.r) and create maps ‘suitable for publication’ (map01.r, map02.r, … map12.r) as laid out in Maps 1 thru 7 below.

The goals are to produce nice atlas pages of campus that use all of the techniques covered in the Intro to GeoSpatial R Carpentry lesson. (Maybe not the NDVI over time, since we’ve never ever done that episode.)

We have created a Data Dictionary to help us keep track of names.

Getting Started

1: Clone this repo.

2: Run new_data_prep.r This script downloads the filder data.zip from our Carentry Google drive into a downloaded_data directory), and unzips it into source_data

3: Now you can run run_every_episode.r or run_ever_map.r to produce output from these data sources. Any data that an episode writes is placed in output_data and any formated maps are placed in images.

4: Script away! Feel free to tackle issues, express issues, or just do work if you see work that needs to be done.

5: Episode scripts produce a number of maps, but not particularly well formatted. They are formated as in the Lesson, with the addition of ggtitles to keep track of where they are generated.

All outputs from map scripts should have a 3 tall x 4 wide aspect ratio, except where noted.

Map 1. A wide view of campus with

(issue #7)

Extent should be the same as #3 inset of map 7.
NCOS – for now the new lagoon habitat shapefile
Water
Bathymentry and elevation in one layer
- hillshade
walkways – using bike paths for now
buildings – for context
vernal pools:
- vector data to be create via analysis from DEMs
- this will come later

Something like this: Map 1 DRAFT

Map 2 A stylized thematic map with trees, water, and bikeways

(Issue #8) map 2 with tree
species Trees from ArcGIS Online: Water: NCOS upper lagoon shapefile of bathymetric topo lines or polygons is it this bird habitat file? – yes bird habitats