Asthma Hositalization - San Francisco Bay Area

This was a three week project to identify a target population susceptible to asthma attacks requiring hospitalization in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Analysis was done using Census data for demographics and data on Ozone and Particulate Matter.  Alameda County was identified as having the highest Asthma hospitalization rates among the 9 counties in the Bay Area especially among the large African American population in the County.  This map shows the 4 area hospitals located near the most dense black population areas. 

Here is a link for a power point showing the steps I took in the analysis process and the many maps I created along the way.

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Asthma.pptx

GIS & Public Health Metadata

Here are the links to the layers created or edited this week.

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/ams_metadata.htm
http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/co_ozone_metadata.htm
http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/co_particulate_metadata.htm
http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/asthma_metadata.htm

LiDAR - Pensacola Beach, FL

This assisgnment was created in ArcMap instead of ERDAS Imagine so the process was much easier and enjoyable. 

ERDAS Imagine - Supervised Classification

ERDAS Imagine - Orthorectification

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/final_orthorect.xps

Major software crashing problems to get this exercise done. 

ERDAS Imagine - Spectral Bands Basics

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Wk2Map1lrp7.xps
http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Wk2Map2lrp7.xps

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Wk2Map3lrp7.xps


This assignment identified natural features by examining spikes in the histogram of multispectral imagery.  I'm still fighting the learning curve of the ERDAS Imagine learning curve.   Repetition is the key.   I created each of these maps three times.  First two because of my error of omission, third because the software decided to rotate my image and cut off my scale bar and bottom text.

ERDAS Challenge Assignment - Pensacola

http://students.uwf.edu/lrp7/Pensacola_lrp7.xps

This link is to the first "challege" map using ERDAS Imagine.  This assignment started out with flashbacks to Adobe Illustrator.  Not user friendly software.  Once we got the instructions to mirror what the server was giving us, things went more smoothly.  Looking forward to being an "Imagineer" and enjoying this new software.