Learning Module: Terrain

Learning Objectives

• Mosaic together mulitple rasters to make a single raster.
• Use slope, aspect, and viewsheds to make spatial decisions
• Create contour maps to illustrate evelation.
• Create hillshades for backgrounds

Reading

• Bolstad Chapter 11
• New York Before the City

Presentations

• Terrain Mapping
• Contours
• Calculating Slope
  • Interactive Slope Tool
• Calculating Aspect
• Hillshades
• Viewsheds
• Raster Histograms

Lab

• Terrain Analysis - Planning a Homestead