Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 28, 2005, 1515Z (10:15 a.m. CDT)

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets
Presented by Scott White (white_s_at_fortlewis.edu) D
epartment of Geosciences, Fort Lewis College,
Durango, Colorado Cutting Edge Workshop Using
GIS and Remote Sensing to Teach Geoscience in the
21st Century Montana State University,
Bozeman August 8-11, 2010
Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 28, 2005, 1515Z (1015
a.m. CDT) 2613'59''N, 8808'03''W Category 5
with maximum sustained winds near 175 mph
GOES-12 1 km visible image http//www.nnvl.noaa.go
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• Fort Lewis College GIS Program
• FLC is a public liberal arts college with
  located in Durango, Colorado about 3,400
  undergrads
• GIS is housed in the Geosciences Dept.
• GIS Certificate (incl. 4 GIS/RS courses)
• primarily Science students (Bio/Geo/Anthro), all
  levels
• ArcGIS (ArcInfo) campus site license

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets

• Outline
• Objectives of the GIS Exercises
• Exercise 1 Creating a Regional Base Map
• Focus on creating a basic map of the region
  affected by a recent hurricane and/or tropical
  storm
• Use of ESRI map data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 2 Creating a Regional Thematic Map
• Focus on creating a hurricane-related thematic
  map from the Exercise 1 base map
• Mapping Hurricane Katrina Designated Disaster
  Areas using FEMA data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 3 Creating Hurricane and Tropical
  Storm Maps
• Map 1 Focus on creating a map showing a
  hurricane/tropical storm track with positions of
  the storm and hurricane/tropical storm force
  wind swaths
• Building a spreadsheet of hurricane/tropical
  storm data using NOAA NHC data
• Point features (hurricane/tropical storm
  locations) and polyline feature (storm track)
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Map 2 Focus on creating a map showing the
  position of a satellite image relative to the
  base map

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets

• Outline
• Objectives of the GIS Exercises
• Exercise 1 Creating a Regional Base Map
• Focus on creating a basic map of the region
  affected by a recent hurricane and/or tropical
  storm
• Use of ESRI map data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 2 Creating a Regional Thematic Map
• Focus on creating a hurricane-related thematic
  map from the Exercise 1 base map
• Mapping Hurricane Katrina Designated Disaster
  Areas using FEMA data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 3 Creating Hurricane and Tropical
  Storm Maps
• Map 1 Focus on creating a map showing a
  hurricane/tropical storm track with positions of
  the storm and hurricane/tropical storm force
  wind swaths
• Building a spreadsheet of hurricane/tropical
  storm data using NOAA NHC data
• Point features (hurricane/tropical storm
  locations) and polyline feature (storm track)
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Map 2 Focus on creating a map showing the
  position of a satellite image relative to the
  base map

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets

• Outline
• Objectives of the GIS Exercises
• Exercise 1 Creating a Regional Base Map
• Focus on creating a basic map of the region
  affected by a recent hurricane and/or tropical
  storm
• Use of ESRI map data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 2 Creating a Regional Thematic Map
• Focus on creating a hurricane-related thematic
  map from the Exercise 1 base map
• Mapping Hurricane Katrina Designated Disaster
  Areas using FEMA data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 3 Creating Hurricane and Tropical
  Storm Maps
• Map 1 Focus on creating a map showing a
  hurricane/tropical storm track with positions of
  the storm and hurricane/tropical storm force
  wind swaths
• Building a spreadsheet of hurricane/tropical
  storm data using NOAA NHC data
• Point features (hurricane/tropical storm
  locations) and polyline feature (storm track)
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Map 2 Focus on creating a map showing the
  position of a satellite image relative to the
  base map

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets

• Outline
• Objectives of the GIS Exercises
• Exercise 1 Creating a Regional Base Map
• Focus on creating a basic map of the region
  affected by a recent hurricane and/or tropical
  storm
• Use of ESRI map data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 2 Creating a Regional Thematic Map
• Focus on creating a hurricane-related thematic
  map from the Exercise 1 base map
• Mapping Hurricane Katrina Designated Disaster
  Areas using FEMA data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 3 Creating Hurricane and Tropical
  Storm Maps
• Map 1 Focus on creating a map showing a
  hurricane/tropical storm track with positions of
  the storm and hurricane/tropical storm force
  wind swaths
• Building a spreadsheet of hurricane/tropical
  storm data using NOAA NHC data
• Point features (hurricane/tropical storm
  locations) and polyline feature (storm track)
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Map 2 Focus on creating a map showing the
  position of a satellite image relative to the
  base map

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets

• Outline
• Objectives of the GIS Exercises
• Exercise 1 Creating a Regional Base Map
• Focus on creating a basic map of the region
  affected by a recent hurricane and/or tropical
  storm
• Use of ESRI map data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 2 Creating a Regional Thematic Map
• Focus on creating a hurricane-related thematic
  map from the Exercise 1 base map
• Mapping Hurricane Katrina Designated Disaster
  Areas using FEMA data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 3 Creating Hurricane and Tropical
  Storm Maps
• Map 1 Focus on creating a map showing a
  hurricane/tropical storm track with positions of
  the storm and hurricane/tropical storm force
  wind swaths
• Building a spreadsheet of hurricane/tropical
  storm data using NOAA NHC data
• Point features (hurricane/tropical storm
  locations) and polyline feature (storm track)
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Map 2 Focus on creating a map showing the
  position of a satellite image relative to the
  base map

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets

• Outline
• Objectives of the GIS Exercises
• Exercise 1 Creating a Regional Base Map
• Focus on creating a basic map of the region
  affected by a recent hurricane and/or tropical
  storm
• Use of ESRI map data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 2 Creating a Regional Thematic Map
• Focus on creating a hurricane-related thematic
  map from the Exercise 1 base map
• Mapping Hurricane Katrina Designated Disaster
  Areas using FEMA data
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Exercise 3 Creating Hurricane and Tropical
  Storm Maps
• Map 1 Focus on creating a map showing a
  hurricane/tropical storm track with positions of
  the storm and hurricane/tropical storm force
  wind swaths
• Building a spreadsheet of hurricane/tropical
  storm data using NOAA NHC data
• Point features (hurricane/tropical storm
  locations) and polyline feature (storm track)
• Symbology, labeling, and the map layout
• Map 2 Focus on creating a map showing the
  position of a satellite image relative to the
  base map

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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
and Raster Data Sets
Data sources and websites ESRI Data Maps (DVD
included with ArcGIS products)
http//www.esri.com/data/data-maps/index.html
  FEMA Mapping and Analysis Center Hurricane
Katrina Declared Disasters http//www.gismaps.
fema.gov/2005pages/katrina.shtm   NOAA NHC
Hurricane Katrina Advisory Archive http//www.
nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/KATRINA.shtml NASA
MODIS Rapid Response Gallery http//rapidfire.
sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery
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Mapping Hurricanes Working with Digital Vector
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