This past week in lab, we still focused on natural disasters - however, we keyed in on hurricanes. More specifically, Hurricane Sandy. We worked on plotting a hurricanes path, turning points to a path using the Point to Line tool. We also learned a little more about creating customized markers - in this case the hurricane symbols. We labeled each point with the MPH winds and barometric pressure; two key elements in hurricane categorizing.
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| Hurricane Sandy's path up the Atlantic Coast starting as a tropical depression and ending as a post-tropical cyclone. |
The second map we created, we used aerial images of the New Jersey shore that were taken before the hurricane hit and after. We learned about cool effects that can be used to compare before and after pictures almost immediately. We created new data by creating attribute domains - which allowed for the classification of each building. Each building structure was categorized based on the amount and type of damage sustained.
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| Before and after structure damage comparison of Fielder Avenue in Ocean County, NJ. |
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