Blog Post 9

The final poster has been made including new maps using raster format, legends, North arrows, and scale bars, and data citations.  The text has been edited and re-worded to flow better. This is the final poster, no other editing will be done to it.  This has been a great project, incorporating my passion for cars, environmental science, and the use of ArcGis. Special thanks to Dr. Katherine Meierdiercks for all the help with the rasters!

Blog Post 8

A lot of progress has been made on the poster so far.  As can be seen in Figures 1 and 2, detailed maps have been made so far, using points.  These will be converted into raster format for the final poster.

Blog Post 7

Since my last post, I have been trying to clean up my map with the use of a better color scheme, bolder route for the rally and such other edits.  I have also started work on my poster using Microsoft PowerPoint.  I will have more done by the end of this week and will be able to show the work in progress poster.  Stay tuned!

Blog Post 6

I have made a large breakthrough on the project.  I was able to successfully add in the .csv files for the United States, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom from the FFDAS database.  It took a while but I added the .csv files by country to ArcMap, used "Display XY Data" to make rasters of the data. It was drawn in grid form, but by making a "Unique Values" category and eliminating the null values that made up the outline xy points, I could just display the CO2 data.  The route data and checkpoints were also added on top.  I will continue to workout the bugs and try to smooth the raster data so it flows better. But this is just a huge improvement.  Thanks to Matt Porter for the help!

Screenshot showing East Coast United States CO2 data and Rally Route

Screenshot showing Europe CO2 data and Rally Route

Blog Post 5

I am still having issues with imputing the excel data (.csv).  Here is an example of CO2 data from the UK and how it is not working right.  I am not sure what can fix this issue.  It is some progress over the large black box I got last time I tried to import the US data.

As you can see, it is drawing lat/long as points and not showing CO2 data.  I have tried to change the symbology, I tried to convert it to a raster, and so far no luck.  

Blog Post 4

I changed my objective from critical habitats to global carbon emissions because it would be easier to correlate to the Gumball 3000 and the emissions the cars give off.
As of right now I am still in search of CO2 and emission data to map.  So far I have found a .kml file from Project Vulcan of Arizona State University.  It provides layers of emission data for the United States.  I have also found a excel file from the Fossil Fuel Data Assimilation system from Purdue University which had global data.  Examples of each can be found below.

Project Vulcan KML File with Gumball Route

Fossil Fuel Data Assimilation System 

Blog Post 3

The map is coming along.  A .KML file from Google Maps was added to the map file.  It includes start and finish, checkpoints, and the street route of the rally.  More needs to be done, but this is a huge breakthrough as before I did not have a .KML file or anything to base the map off of, besides .JPG images of the route.  Below is a representation of the map so far, using a ERSI ArcGIS Server basemap "World_Street_Map" file.

Blog Post 2

Today I began working on my map and collecting data.  I read through how to add .klm and .kmz files to ArcMap.  I will be using the maps posted from last week to create a file layer of the Gumball route. My next step is to collect more data on critical habitats and figure out how to compile it in a way to import into ArcMap.  Most likely as a table (maybe raster?).

Just found a hiccup, I will have to geo-reference the original pictures of the maps to create a file.  I could not find anything about the Gumball on google maps or any files pertaining to it.

Map of Gumball 2014 Route

Stage 1: USA

Stage 2: Europe

A more detailed description of locations and checkpoints can be seen on the Gumball website

Revised Proposal

Tyler Clausen
Siena College
Loudonville, NY 12211
October 13, 2014


Introduction:
The Gumball 3000 is an annual British 3,000 mile motor rally which occurs internationally on open public roads.  In the 2014 rally, 110 official "entered" cars registered and countless thousands of other "non-entered" racers drove along the route as well.  The starting line began in the Miami, FL, USA, passed through Atlanta, and ended in New York City.  Then the cars were loaded into planes and flown over to Edinburgh, UK, continuing through London, Paris, and Barcelona, before making to the finish on the island of Ibiza.  This took a total of 8 days to complete.
Cars are well known to cause negative impacts to the environment.  All of these cars traveling across the country would have been emitting carbon dioxide gases. In today's society, carbon emissions are heavily recorded and researched due to "global warming" and environmental impacts.  

Objectives:
This project will make use of carbon emission data collected from outside databases and studies as well as the route of the 2014 Gumball 300 to create a map using ESRI ArcMap.  These data points will be mapped according to how severe carbon emissions are on the route and the impacts they may have.


Data Sources:

• Areal photography
• Satellite imagery
• GPS point data
• Existing maps of the Gumball route
• Carbon emission databases

Schedule (Tentative):
10/9- Work on Project Proposal
Week of 10/13- Meet with Dr. M about pre existing CO2 data, do research
10/14- Revised project proposal due
Week of 10/20- Start creating map
10/21- Blog 2 due
10/28- Blog 3 due
11/4- Blog 4 due
11/13- Blog 5 due
11/18- Blog 6 due
11/25- Blog 7 due
12/2- Work on Project
12/4- Poster Presentations

Deliverables:
-Project Proposal
-Project blog with weekly blog postings and updates
-Comments on classmates' blog
-A final poster presentation

Proposal Draft

The Gumball 3000 and it's Impacts on Critical Habitats

Tyler Clausen
Siena College
Loudonville, NY 12211
October 7, 2014

Introduction:
          The Gumball 3000 is an annual British 3,000 mile motor rally which occurs internationally on open public roads.  In the 2014 rally, 110 official "entered" cars registered and countless thousands of other "non-entered" racers drove along the route as well.  The starting line began in the Miami, FL, USA, passed through Atlanta, and finished in New York City.  Then the cars were loaded into planes and flown over to Edinburgh, UK, continuing through London, Paris, and Barcelona, before making to the finish on the island of Ibiza.  This took a total of 8 days to complete.
          Cars are well known to cause negative impacts to the environment.  All of these cars traveling across the country would have been emitting carbon dioxide gases, disturbing wildlife, and bringing about other negative impacts.  There are certain species and habitats that are of great importance for many reasons.  We call these critical habitats, which are areas essential to the conservation of a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.  Designation of critical habitats are essential to these species because they have the best living conditions for them.  The aim of this study is to analyze the impacts of this rally on critical habitats along the route.

Objectives:
          This project will make use of data collected from critical habitat data bases and the known route of the 2014 Gumball 300 to make data points in GIS.  These data points will be mapped according to how severe a species is impacted (how threatened or endangered; IUCN), and investigate to what degree the rally caused disturbance.

Data Sources:

• Areal photography
• Satellite imagery
• GPS point data
• Existing maps of the Gumball route

Tentative Schedule:
10/9- Work on Project Proposal
Week of 10/13- Meet with Dr. M about preexisting Critical Habitat data, do research
The rest TBD!