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Spatial Analysis – A Case Study
Patrick KishClass project for Resource
Management 591
West Virginia University14 Dec 2001
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Problem Landslides are present in certain
areas of West Virginia
Question: How much of a determinant is land slope in this matter?
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Where to begin? West Virginia
Landslide and Slide Prone Areas map
Paper only so scanned in
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What to add?
DEMs available at different resolutions
10 meter and 30 meter resolution DEMs imported
Also a Geology map and a DOQQ
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Adding relevant data Landslide
polygons added through “heads up” digitization
Attribute table used for determining area of slides
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Hypothesis
Slope has something to do with the prevelance of landslides
Literature suggests that 35 degrees is a critical value
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Getting Slope Information ArcMap’s Spatial Analysis was
applied to DEMs
Slope shown by color – degree values in Table of Contents
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More interesting analysis Intersecting slope map with slide
polygons layer allows us to determine average slope of a slide
Determined to be 34.81 degrees
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Final product
What layers should be included?
How should they be arranged?
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Intriguing Questions
Why doesn’t 30 m map do “better”?
What role does geology play? What about soil type?
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BIBLIOGRAPHY All figures (and details about the study)
were taken from:
http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/rm493-591/fall2001/students/kish/ The%20Use%20of%2010%20Meter%20and%2030%20Meter%20Digital%20Elevation%20Models%20for%20Determining%20Areas%20Susceptible%20to%20Landsliding%20in%20the%20Morgantown%20N.htm
Alas, as with so much data on the Internet, this has proven transitory. A Google search will find this URL for you, but the only remaining record is a Master’s thesis on the subject which is only available from on the WVU campus.