Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Lab6: DEMs in ArcGIS



For this week's lab, I chose to do a DEM on the greater part of the Hawaiian island of Maui. I thought it would be an interesting choice because Hawaii is very well known for its prominent volcanic activity, a trait that I thought would lead to some interesting terrain. Additionally, I have never been to Hawaii. I was not mistaken - Maui made for a very interesting DEM. This extent goes from 20.9061111112 to 20.597222223 North and from -156.46111111 to -156.008055555 West, which falls under UTM zone 4. The geographic coordinate systems used include the North American GCS of 1983 (GCS_North_American_1983) as well as the North American Datum of 1983 (D_North_American_1983).

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