Each permutation involved the five tools, seven datasets, and multiple pre-selected distance thresholds to test for scale and zoning effects of the MAUP. This study raises questions regarding the exceptional nature of the American religious landscape. The bicyclist count collection method produced by this thesis serves as a model for community-based organizations that want to collect bicyclist counts by means of an inexpensive and automated method. Landslide triggering variables are well suited for real-time streaming due to their continuously changing behavior. A Contributory Web-based Application for Documenting Historic Resources: French Colonial Era Art Deco Architecture in Hanoi, Advisor: John Wilson | Committee Members: jennifer Swift, Robert Vos. There is a lack of protocols for tracking and recording sinkhole events data nationally. Lessig (2011) argues that the way campaigns are funded, and the dependence members of Congress have on a relatively small number of donors is a form of corruption in our political system. From the established sequence of terminus locations, movement distances were quantified between the glacier locations. TTP landings summaries are available to the public via a web application hosted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The basis for VRT is soil sampling. As one of the major powers in the Maya region, Tikal was engaged in frequent warfare with rival cities in the Lowlands. Increase in Surface Temperature and Deep Layer Nitrate in the California Current: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Four-Dimensional Hydrographic Data, Advisor: Karen Kemp | Committee Members: Darren Ruddell, Su Jin Lee. Finding Environmental Opportunities for Early Sea Crossings: An Agent-Based Model of Middle to Late Pleistocene Mediterranean Coastal Migration, Advisor: Karen Kemp | Committee Members: Jennifer Swift, Robert Vos. Integrating Land Survey Data into Measurement-Based GIS: An Assessment of Challenges and Practical Solutions for Surveyors in Texas, Advisor: Karen Kemp | Committee Members: Jordan Hastings, Michael Goodchild. Striving to contribute to tackling this problem, this thesis provides a site suitability analysis for a new low-cost primary care facility in Service Planning Area 6 (SPA6) of Los Angeles County, a significantly under-served area that largely coincides with South Los Angeles. Several indoor positioning technologies and Augmented Reality services were tested to deliver educational content based on user mobile device locations and camera orientations. This practice however, is often conducted solely in a virtual environment, where false positives can abound due to disconnection from geospatial ground truths. hp.push("2023"); Future projections and models show an increase in frequency of large storm systems that generate larger than average waves and water levels, resulting in increased erosion and flooding. trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the US and/or other countries. Based on road network and cadastral data, the technique uses the Origin-to-Destination Matrix Tool within Esri's Network Analyst extension in conjunction with dasymetric mapping of US Census Data to the cadastral data. It provides the tools necessary to facilitate a more organized, logical approach to decision-making and implementing. The purpose of this thesis is to help rectify those shortcomings and create a simple and repeatable process for maintaining and updating those systems with the latest, most up-to-date street maps and aerial imagery from all sources available on the internet and thus improving the aircrew's effectiveness. if (hp.indexOf("2017") == -1) { Out-Of-School Suspensions by Home Neighborhood: A Spatial Analysis of Student Suspensions in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, Advisor: John Wilson | Committee Members: Karen Kemp, Jennifer Swift. Where indigenous people once managed the land with frequent burning, fire suppression throughout the past two centuries has caused ecological changes. Mapping Firing Ranges as Social Capital Generators in Houston, Texas, Advisor: John Wilson | Committee Members: Robert Vos, Daniel Warshawsky. Dissertations & Theses In this study, multiple precision agriculture grid and zone-based soil sampling methods and procedures are utilized on a farm in northeastern North Carolina. Digitization of paleontological collections that are not protected by the PRPA has been a slow process. and depression (Berry et al. An innovative new web mapping application was built for general public consumption that aggregates location data from Twitter, harvests ambient location information, analyzes the captured data to provide personal location intelligence, and visualizes possible areas of interest. An appropriately sited retail location can turn a business into a veritable cash machine for the owner. and personnel. I used a combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Remote Sensing (RS) to analyze environmental variables and track movement patterns of sheep and tested it at the Lava Lake Livestock and Landscape Ranch. This thesis is a retrospective application of geographic information science to the records Wildfire probability maps depicting the likelihood of wildfire in California can aid land as well as disaster management activities and can enhance the safety of firefighters and the public, and minimize wildland and property damages. Short of becoming homeless, everyone must live somewhere, but the circumstances leading to an individuals choice of housing can be complex. This study uses the brightness temperature difference between MODIS thermal bands to track the ash cloud for each day of the eruption. According to social disorganization theory, crime is caused by social and economic variables at the neighborhood level. In the years following the 1906 earthquake and fires, the streets of San Francisco were renamed, renumbered, and reshaped. For other cities, this sort of accessibility analysis could help planners to target areas to increase funding for fitness amenities and programs within parks, establish new parks, or add pedestrian paths to improve walkability to existing park resources. Community Water Systems (CWS) are public or private water systems that supply water to the same population year-round, and they provide drinking water to over 300 million people in the United States each year. 2 comments. Elections are a pinnacle of modern democracy. Through text analysis and interviews with first responders, a list of relevant keywords was developed. Understanding the geographic distribution of insurgency violence is critical for assessing where counterinsurgency and civilian protections operations are effective. evaluated in extensive experiments, assessing the impact of varying width of the road features Areas that are scored higher than 75 within the suitable band should be locally tested to decide if the area is ready for habitat restoration to proceed. This study used remotely collected imagery of montane forests through alpine over thirty years, 1984 to 2018, to classify and examine changes in vegetation patterns. The application compiles gathered survey scores and then provides them back to users in near real-time. Using a satellite telemetry dataset collected by Ducks Unlimited during 2008 and 2009 in the context of the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD), I addressed the land use habits of A. rubripes to assess the efficacy of costly conservation efforts implemented through conservation easements and the maintenance of wildlife refuges and management areas. There are three levels of curated data: institutional, administrative, and social. One of the most affected regions is the West coast of the United States where, in particular, California experiences record breaking fires year after year. Sinkhole formation can negatively impact society, manifesting mostly as property damage, and in some tragic cases, causing a loss of life. The reservoir characterization results provide a credible approximation of the general geological continuity of the reservoir and can be further used for reservoir engineering and geochemical applications. In Marin County, the study area for this thesis, woody plant encroachment caused by fire suppression is an ecological concern. methods have on the environment, such as nuclear with a 50 year average decommissioning Data Overload in Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Improving Bandwidth Utilization Through Wavelet Compression, Advisor: Jordan Hastings | Committee Members: Karen Kemp, Yao-Yi Chiang. document.writeln("
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The theory of institutional inscription (Ethington, 2011) holds that cultures leave definitive imprints in the regions where they are established; its foremost application has been to the Los Angeles Basin of California. While multiple studies have investigated the avian diversity of Taipei's green spaces, most Difference-in-difference analysis and graphical trend analysis were then used to determine that a loss in value did exist in homes of the Porter Ranch community. of the San Bernardino County sheriffs air rescue program. Few studies have compared land cover and cadastral land use data using Shannon's Entropy as the main comparison metric. The state of Florida has access to vast marine life resources. The dimensions and shape of the reservoir are inferred from geological reports. An accuracy assessment of the dNBR was conducted using verified soil burn severity points collected post-fire by Burned Areas Emergency Response (BAER) teams. Caverns Measureless to Man: Interdisciplinary Planetary Science & Technology Analog Research Underwater Laser Scanner Survey (Quintana Roo, Mexico), Advisor: Steven Fleming | Committee Members: Laura Loyola, Su Jin Lee. This research includes sample areas of Boulder, Colorado as a case study. Ever-increasing demand on Earth's finite natural resources and land requires environmental planners to employ informed and successful management of environments. I have found it twice, a long time ago when it first came out while running around questing. 2) do the changes in crime rates have a spatial pattern? This study illustrates how GIS technology can help to show how social capital is generated and why firing ranges, specifically, can help to generate social capital. Although some shark species, like the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), have made a steady comeback in the last decade, there is still significant room for improvement. The goal of this application is to create the foundation for a web-based spatial inventory of existing French Colonial era buildings. This thesis analyzes demographic data from the U.S. Census and other sources using geospatial and statistical methods to propose new COZs in the cities of Bakersfield, Los Angeles, and Palmdale. Discord - The model allowed for comparison of the effectiveness of the implementation strategies. Finally, LA County makes most SurvInt data publicly available. A high-water mark (HWM) is a horizontal mark left on a structure or vegetation after floodwaters recede. These yield data were interpolated using standard industry practices. City developers and park planners that design future park projects will have the opportunity to use the tools needed to run real-time analyses and gather input from community residents regarding parks in their neighborhood. As Global Climate Change (GCC) becomes an increasingly pressing issue, the shift towards renewable energy has renewed urgency. This study charts the distribution of the greater sage-grouse in the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming using the maximum entropy model MAXENT. Potential explanatory variables included are linked to economic opportunity, demographics, healthy food availability, and health policies. This project implements a GIS for the landscape irrigation system on the Music Academy of the West campus in Montecito, California. Unfortunately, it also has the 10th highest maternal mortality rate of any country in the world at 693 deaths per 100,000 births in 2015. Item: Chef Arquitius's Lost Thesis This application was developed from a manually generated trail database of hiking trails in the ANF, containing trail data regarding trail distance, elevation gain, maximum elevation, and trail type. ESO Given the challenge, local government officials seek the best practices that will ensure that residents at all income levels have access to fair, safe, and affordable rental housing. In todays elections, we are at an interesting crossroads of technology and convenience. These data were converted via taxonomies and unit conversions to correlate to the regional and national scale standards of the NAMBMP. Metadata for all data was created in XML format. Results from these two sites indicate that accretion has been the prime mode of coastal change throughout this century. Natural disaster events such as tropical storms and earthquakes have gained widespread attention from the general public. This thesis looked at the spatial and temporal changes in Western snowy plover nesting from 2002-2018 using Hot Spot Analysis to determine clustering of nest predation, initiation, and success throughout the breeding site. Researchers have addressed biochar feedstock, production technologies, physical and chemical properties, and biochars potential in energy generation, environmental remediation, resource management, land rehabilitation, and agricultural production. Online collaborative databases such as Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) and the Global Biodiversity Facility (GBIF) offer museums the chance to combine with other museums and institutions to develop a global database that shares highly curated biological and paleontological collections for the purpose of education and research. I show how scholars have misread the historical evidence surrounding the production and dissemination of this survey by ignoring the patronage motives of those involved in its production. This study could serve as a guide for future planning committees, school boards, districts, or city developers to help determine how and where schools should be placed throughout the country, Peoples of Washington Historical Geographic Information System: Geo-referencing Culture Using Archival Standards, Advisor: Robert Vos | Committee Members: jennifer Swift, Katsuhiko Oda. The analysis uses long-term retrospective data to examine changes in fishing effort over time in the Alaskan bottom-trawl fishery. These visualizations and associated analyses comparing historic and current conditions provide a historical perspective for environmental planners to identify landscape changes and current trajectories of urbanized landscapes. The study uses a method for dasymetrically mapping population data to land parcels, Esri's ArcGIS 10.1 Service Area Network Analyst tool, and a park amenity scoring system based on the Physical Activity Resource Assessment (PARA) instrument. 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