Project 1

What is the topic? Analysis of Middle Earth from LOTR :) What are the data and where is the data obtained from (provide links too)? Middle Earth contours, various environmental and development shapefiles https://github.com/jvangeld/ME-GIS Are there any necessary transformations or subsets you need to do to the data? Transform contours into DEM/Hillshade Using R (https://www.r-bloggers.com/r-as-gis-for-ecologists/ ) Clip DEM to Middle Earth Coastline boundaries still working on this part^^ What is the analysis you'll be performing on your data sets? Density of hamlets, towers and keeps, towns, ruins? What outputs will you be creating and how are they directly connected to the class? Heat map? Density of towers and keeps, using heat map kernel distance tool. distance from cities to towers and keeps using nearest distance to hub tool.