Lab 2 Introduction

Scenario

You have a research question: What is the relationship between neighborhood green vegetation coverage and income in Vancouver?

How to answer the question:

1) Estimate vegetation coverage with satellite data and overlay census data. 2) Plot the relationship between vegetation coverage and income and run linear regression analysis. 3) Visualize the results. 4) Complete the corresponding lab quiz on canvas and upload your final map there.

Learning Objectives:

Experience a Typical GIS Workflow
Explore Canadian Census Data
Download Data from Google Earth Engine
Work with Raster and Vector Data Layers
Conduct Spatial Analysis
Normalize and Classify Data
Create Charts

There are a wide variety of data sources out there. We’ll cover some options in greater detail later. For now, I’m going to provide you with the census data we’ll use and we’re going to rely on Google Earth Engine (GEE) to download a raster data layer. This will require a Google account so that you can access GEE and Google Drive. Go to Google and create an account by following the Sign In button if you don’t already have one. Then follow this link and choose sign up in the top right. Follow the instructions to sign up using your Google account. Once you have an account setup, you can close GEE. We’ll go back to it later.

Getting Started

Just as in Lab 1, create a new project in ArcPro called Lab2_Project.

Download the Census Data

Now download the census data and extract the lab2_Data.zip file to your newly created Lab2_Project folder.

Acknowledgments

This lab was written by June Skeeter using content adapted from lab assignments created by Naomi Schwartz and Sally Hermansen.