GEOG 487
Environmental Challenges in Spatial Data Science

Advanced Activity

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Advanced Activity

Advanced Activities are designed to make you apply the skills you learned in this lesson to solve an environmental problem and/or explore additional resources related to lesson topics.

Directions:

In the Step-by-Step activity, we used road center-lines from the year 2007 to explore forest fragmentation and edge effects. Using the road centerlines from 2001 (roads01), how many forest patches were located in the study site in 2001? Using the road centerlines from 2021 (roads21), how many forest patches were located in the study site in 2021?