For this week's class we were tasked with using water, road, and conservation site features to determine the best sites for a hypothetical pavilion to be built in De Soto National Forest. The lab primarily focused on using spatial analysis tools to determine viable sites and pick a location that best fits. I first began by building a buffer around the water and road layers of different sizes depending on the feature (road, river, or lake). I then performed a union analysis to find sites where the road buffer and water buffer overlap. After this I used the erase analysis tool to remove any part of this overlap the existed in a conservation zone, and then set up the map layout with the remaining zones. I also used the geometry calculation tool in the attribute table to determine the area of each zone, and used a graduated color scheme for those zones based on area.
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