| Wildlife projects use for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Basic GIS Skills
- Students learn the many basic skills to manipulate and create maps to be used for
analysis or display.
Plotting wolf data locations
- Students use the basic skills of GIS to plot the collared animal's location points from the
satellite data we receive from ARGOS, or the radio telemetry data collected in the field.
- Students overlay data layers to analyze movement of the animal.. Current data layers
that are available include: topography maps, counties, roads, rivers, lakes, watersheds,
federal lands, cities, etc.
- Future data overlays to be analyzed for habitat and environmental studies include: aerial
photos, topographic and rectified plat maps.
Using the Spatial Analyst Extensions
- Students will use this extension to see elevation discrepancy.
- Future uses of this extension is viewing three-dimensional landforms.
Use of GIS with GPS (Global Positioning System)
- Students use a portable GPS unit to take location readings during field telemetry surveys
and download the information into GIS to plot animal locations.
- Students also will learn the process of converting latitude/longitude coordinates into UTM
(Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates and vice versa.
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