Objectives
In this assignment, you will be doing the following:
1. Conduct a viewshed analysis and interpret the results;
2. Perform a least cost path analysis and interpret the results.
Background:
You are working for the local tourism bureau to plan a new sightseeing location on top of a local mountain and identify the optimal path for a hiking trail that connects the urban area to that sightseeing location. As you create the path to town you must consider both slope and land cover. This type of analysis is known as least cost path analysis.
More details on least cost path analysis: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/proapp/latest/toolreference/spatialanalyst/creatingthe-least-cost-path.htm
Figure 1: This map shows an example of a spatial model to calculate the least cost path between a stand of forest being cut and the nearest sawmill.
Source: http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Cost_Path_Analysis
The local tourism bureau is planning on a new sightseeing location on top of a local mountain and connected that location to the urban area with a hiking trail. The urban area (developed area) should be visible when a hiker is at the new sightseeing location (peak area of the mountain). There are several candidate spots for this new sightseeing location at the peak area of the mountain. To identify the best sightseeing location from these candidate spots, you need to conduct a viewshed analysis for each of these candidate spots and compare the coverage of the visible area.
Details on viewshed tool: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/3d-analyst/viewshed.htm
You will need to use the following data in the File Geodatabase at “DataData.gdb”:
• CandidateSpot_A
• CandidateSpot_B
• CandidateSpot_C
• LandUse o Land cover including urban land cover (i.e. high intensity development, medium intensity development, low intensity development) and other land use types.
• DEM
o Digital elevation model of the region.
• Viewshed
• Con
• Times
• Reclassify
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Note: The Viewshed analysis output raster can only be saved in a File Geodatabase. Therefore, put all output rasters into the File Geodatabase at “DataOutputs.gdb”
With your selected best sightseeing location in the last step, you need to plan an appropriate route (hiking trail) between the sightseeing location and the urban area. You have to create a model builder to finish the following analysis.
You will need to use the following datasets in your analysis:
• CandidateSpot_X o Your selected best sightseeing location in the last step as the destination.
• TrailHead o The origin of your hiking trail connects to the best sightseeing location.
• Landcover o Land cover including urban land cover (i.e. high intensity development, medium intensity development, low intensity development).
• DEM
o Digital elevation model of the region.
The main step when conducting a least cost path analysis is creating the cost raster. The final cost raster will be composed of two equally weighted cost rasters, one using slope and the other using land cover. A cost raster identifies the cost of traveling through each cell.
Slope Cost Raster The slope cost raster will be based on Tobler’s Hiking Function, which provides estimates of walking speed with the following function. You will need to firstly generate the Slopes raster (based on Elevation raster), and secondly calculate https://.com the Walking Speed raster (based on the Slopes raster), and then reclassify (using Equal Interval Classification method) the Walking Speed raster to costs between 1 (easiest) to 10 (hardest).
Add 𝑊=6𝑒−3.5| +0.05|
where
W = walking velocity [km/h] θ = angle of slope (radians) = [degree of slop] * PI / 180。
e = 2.71828
Land Cover Cost Raster
• The Reclassify tool will be used to transform the values of the Landuse layer onto a common scale from 1 (easiest) to 10 (hardest) according to the following table. Don’t forget about the areas (e.g., Water) that are impassible. Normally, we will use “NODATA” as the value of the cell to represent impassible areas.
VALUE
New
values
Descriptions (for reference only)
1
2
1
2
Developed, High Intensity
Developed, Medium Intensity
Developed, Low Intensity
Agriculture
3 3
4 5 6 10 Grassland
Forest, Deciduous
5
6
7 8 Forest, Coniferous
8
9
10
11 9 Forest, Mixed Deciduous-Coniferous
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Scrub/Shrub
Wetland
A
7
NODATA
4 Bare Land
powcoderImpassible)
Final Cost Raster
The final cost raster will be composed of two equally weighted cost rasters (50%:50%), one using Slope cost raster and the other using the reclassified Land Cover cost raster.
• Slope
• Raster Calculator
• Reclassify
• Weighted Sum
• Least Cost Path (Intelligence)
Utilizing the cost raster, find the least cost path for the visitors to reach the best sightseeing location.
• To export a graphic, go to ModelBuilder tab > click the down-arrow on Export > Export To Graphic
• To save the model file, go to ModelBuilder tab > click the down-arrow on Save > Save As … Please include the graphic in the PDF file and the model file in the ZIP file submission.
Slope (Degree) Walking Speed
Cost Value
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42
28
7
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1. One PDF file: include all your response to all the questions (including snapshots of required maps and figures).
2. One ZIP file (name as Map&Model.zip): include all the files (full-size maps and ArcGIS models/tools) you created (do not include the original dataset we provided) while working on the assignment. Please also include a technical description (ReadMe.txt file) of all the files included in the ZIP file.
