Geoprocessing
This week in GIS Programming we learned about geoprocessing. The assignment included two main parts: designing a model and writing a geoprocessing script. For the first task, I used ModelBuilder in ArcGIS pro to develop a model that incorporated two different variables (basin and soils) and used three different tools: clip, select, and erase. At the outcome, I created the model below which essentially produced a polygon on the map frame that showed areas of non-prime farmland from a basin feature cut from a larger soils layer: For the last task, I wrote a geoprocessing script that essentially added XY coordinates to point features in a shapefile, created a buffer of 1,000 meters around each point feature, then dissolved the features into each point. The screenshot below shows the output of the script I wrote showing that each of these three processes were successfully executed: I enjoyed completing this week’s module as it was my favorite so far. This is...