This weekend I attended a university sustainability conference at Denison University along with several other OWU students, faculty, and staff. The purpose of the conference was to serve as a discussion and presentation of sustainability projects ideas currently underway at Denison, Kenyon, and Wooster colleges. One of the ideas brought up at the conference was the wasted energy created by electronics left continually on or plugged in and lights left on even when unused. I think it would be interesting and relevant to look at comparative electrical consumption in each building on campus and in addition to do a survey of what on average is left on/ plugged in each building during periods when the building sees relatively little use. For academic campus buildings this would be at night and on the weekends and for dorm it might be during the day when most students are at class. Oh, and it might be cool to reflect the relative amount of coal burnt to sustain each building.
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Types of Geographic Features:
- Discrete- exact locations and lines
- C0ntinuous Phenomena- values can be measured anywhere and blanket the entire map. Examples: temperature, annual rainfall. Data collected from evenly spaced sample points and GIS interpolates values between these points. Can be presented as a continual surface or as boundaries.
2 Ways of Representing Geographic Features
- Vector- feature represented by a row in a table with x,y location. Lines are a series of coordinate pairs and areas are represented by closed polygons. Analysis occurs in the table values
- Raster- features are represented by a matrix of cells. Each layer represents a different attribute. Analysis involves the combination of cell layers to create new layers with new cell values. Appropriate cell size is important.
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