Mobile housing represents 63% of the City of Apache Junction’s housing stock. At a time when available housing assistance and subsidies do not meet demand, these units represent a valuable source of unsubsidized housing stock for Apache Junction (the City) and the United States as a whole. While their affordability is an asset, the City […]
Discipline: GIS
Seaside Fire Department Incident Data Analysis
With this knowledge we used the portion of the fire hydrants addresses provided by the city of Seaside fire department to geocode their locations in order to analyze them. With this knowledge we used the portion of the fire hydrants addresses provided by the city of Seaside fire department to geocode their locations in order […]
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Native Plants on Seaside Dunes
We began our project based on our research question: How does aspect and elevation affect native plant species density and distribution on sand dunes located on the central coast of California? To answer this question we analyzed how aspect, slope, and elevation affect the growth of native species found along the rear dune areas of […]
Traffic Accidents versus Land Type in the City of Seaside
To spatially analyze Fire Department accident data in the city of Seaside, California from the dates March 25, 2015 to March 30, 2015. The accidents will be interpreted in groups based on land type in which they occurred. The four land types investigated in this project are “developed – open space”, “developed – low intensity”, […]
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Stormwater inlets in the City of Salinas- Data dictionary and gap analysis
To consolidate the two data sets (InletsByZone and swInlet) taken of Salinas’ stormwater inlet drains, data points were verified and validated through a series of steps; if the points on both data sets’ overlapped, the data point was considered verified, if the points differed slightly or only one layer was present, Google Earth’s “street-view” feature […]
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Public Art map web overlay
This semester, the City has worked extensively on building an online platform capable of being used by the students to collect high accuracy GPS data from their own mobile devices. This approach uses new GPS receiver technology that is being lent out by the City of Bozeman GIS department directly to the students participating in […]
Geocoding business licenses in Salinas
This project was conducted for the city of Salinas to assign geographic coordinates to a large set of public data, so that the city is able to obtain the locations of business licenses visibly by using ArcGIS. Our team was assigned approximately 8,252 total businesses and we had to verify the address location to ensure […]
GIS as a Communication Tool: Designing and Developing a Construction Map
This project was completed as part of the 2018-2019 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Ramsey County. Ramsey County wanted to create a single web-mapping application designed to improve coordination among city and county public works departments of road construction and maintenance projects included in their respective five-year plans. Ideally, the application would display the […]
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Water Savings Devices versus Income in the City of Seaside
This project examined households in the city of Seaside which have received rebates for purchasing water-saving appliances. The goal of this project is to see which income levels make a household more likely to purchase a water-saving appliance with a rebate and whether or not distance from a major retailer has an effect on said […]
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Storm Drains in Seaside
The study of Seaside storm drain densities between commercial and residential areas is of value because storm drains can be an entry point for trash to collect into a marine sanctuary such as the Monterey Bay. Various geospatial datasets were created and manipulated to create ArcMaps, graphs, and tables to compare storm drain density between […]