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Geographic Information Systems Applications
Report: Data Analysis in QGIS - Assignment Items
Introduction
This is your first piece of written assessment for the unit. It tests the skills and knowledge that you have acquired in the unit within weeks 1-6. You have been introduced to the functionality of QGIS and this first assignment provides a test of your basic spatial analysis and cartography skills. Overall, it is worth 30% of the unit assessment.
Requirements
Overall word limit: 1200 words maximum
Submission format: Word or PDF format only
Your word count will not include any words included in tables presenting numeric outputs.
Assignment brief
Submit the requested items from weeks 1 to 6 as a single report.
Section 3:
Your Analysis of tree canopy by land-use for your allocated SA2 and the Perth Metropolitan Region conducted over weeks 3 and 4.
Tree Canopy by Land-use
Provide an analysis of the dynamics of tree canopy cover by land-use in your SA2 in comparison to tree canopy by land-use across the whole Greater Perth Region.
In weeks 3 and 4 you were shown the steps required to compile tree canopy data using the land-use field called monitorcat as a land-use descriptor. For this part of the assignment, you will need to complete the requisite steps to generate similar information using the field MB_cat16 as the descriptor of land-use.
To complete this exercise, you will need to generate layers that provide:
Measures of tree canopy cover and land area for your whole SA2;
measures of tree canopy cover and land area by land-use (use the mb_cat16 field) for your SA2;
measures of tree canopy cover and area for the Perth Metropolitan Region; and
measures of tree canopy cover and land area by land-use for the Perth Metropolitan Region (use the mb_cat16 field).
Look to clearly identify where your SA2 is located.
Look to highlight overall tree canopy in your SA2 in comparison to other SA2s across the region
Look to provide detail on tree canopy cover and land-use in your SA2 and for the Perth Metropolitan Region.
Provide your SA2 with good spatial context and provide mapped information that you consider to be informative to your reader.
In your one-page layout also include graphs of:
Tree canopy cover (percentage) by land-use*;
tree canopy cover and non-canopy cover area by land-use (hectares)*;
percentage of tree canopy cover by land-use*;
percentage of land area by land-use*; and
other relevant socio-economic context.
*make sure you include measures for the whole SA2 and for the Perth Metropolitan Region.
Provide a short, written, referenced analysis and discussion (approximately 300 to 400 words) comparing tree canopy cover and land-use in your SA2 area compared to the Perth Metropolitan Region
Consider the context and importance of tree canopy cover overall.
Consider the region as a whole and identify the important land-uses across the region in terms of land area and in terms of tree canopy cover.
Highlight and discuss tree canopy cover and land-use characteristics of your SA2 in comparison to the Perth Metropolitan Region.
Look to identify where your SA2 ranks in comparison to other SA2s in terms of overall tree canopy cover and look for trends in your land-use, socio-economic and density data that can be used to explain the tree canopy characteristics of your SA2.
Support your discussion by providing the tabular outputs for both your SA2 and the Perth Metropolitan Region, including:
Tree canopy cover (%) by land-use*;
Tree canopy cover and non-canopy cover area by land-use (hectares)*;
Percentage of tree canopy cover by land-use*; and
percentage of land area by land-use*;