You have been hired by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to determine how land cover has changed historically in southeastern Pennsylvania between 1978 and 2005. You know that land cover grid data is available for the time periods of interest, but the datasets are from two different sources. You also know that while each data set is similar, the land use/land change categories and codes do not match up perfectly between the different historical sources. You must use Spatial Analyst to help standardize all of the datasets and determine how much land area has changed over time by land cover category (agriculture, residential, etc.)
At the successful completion of Lesson 5, you will have:
If you have questions now or at any point during this lesson, please feel free to post them to the Lesson 5 Discussion.
This lesson is worth 100 points and is one week in length. Please refer to the Course Calendar for specific time frames and due dates. To finish this lesson, you must complete the activities listed below. You may find it useful to print this page out first so that you can follow along with the directions. Simply click the arrow to navigate through the lesson and complete the activities in the order that they are displayed.
SDG image retrieved from the United Nations [1]