Thursday, May 17, 2012

Salton Sea Map & Data

Done with ArcMap, data courtesy of Dept. of Fish & Game, CA.

On our first map, we have put together on this map initial data we are working with. Above we have pulled up fish and salt data. We have added the bathymetry just for reference, since it is a shallow water body. There are a total of 14 points of data collection. Fish points contain number of caught fish from 2003-2008. Tilapia, corvina, croaker, and sargo fish are found and caught in the Salton Sea. Under the salt points, temperature and salinity will be examined.

We will be using IDW (Inverse Distance Weighted) interpolation in order to see the variation of salt content and fish content between each points We will break it down by exporting date fields per year. Data is collected by season. 

Source:  ftp://ftp.dfg.ca.gov/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/

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