Georeferencing

For our last lab, we learned about georeferencing, editing, buffer analysis, and ArcScene. Georeferencing is a process one may use to tell a raster dataset “where it belongs”. This is done by identifying a common point on the target layer and an already referenced control layer and linking these common points. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this. And then checking each match-up's "Total RMS Error" number; as long as it was below 15, the rate of error was acceptable. We then added a conservation buffer zone around an eagles nest. I had the most trouble figuring out what URL to add to the attribute table, to connect a link to the image. Lastly, we mapped a 3D scene of our digitized features.

This map includes two raster images of the UWF grounds, the UWF roads and buildings, and an eagles nest with buffer zones just beyond campus. Through georeferencing, I matched up points on the raster images to points on the buildings and roads layers, because they were already spatially defined. I also created a conservation buffer around the eagles nest and added a basemap.