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Case Study: You are a GIS analyst for Riverside County, CA asked to research wildfire history in the county. Although everyone in the county knows wildfires are very prevalent, county administrators want to better understand the spatial patterns associated with the fires. They decide to analyze the documented wildfires in the county using the U.S. census tracts to look for spatial patterns and better understand the effect of fires on the population. The wildfire data has been converted from a polygon feature to a point feature representing the centroid of the fire. There is also a map of Joshua Tree National Park, which lies within the county. You will need to georeference this map, to see if there is a relationship between campsites and fires. Finally, you will need to utilize joins, statistics, summary statistics and attribute queries to complete this practical final. Examine all datasets provided in the file geodatabase, there is one feature that has a different projection than others. Project this feature to match the other features.
Questions: The county administrators have asked the following questions:
Which feature needed to be projected? What was the projection of the original feature and what coordinate system did you project it into? Please describe your process.
Which 5 census tracts have the highest population?
What is the min, max and average Num_Fires across all census tracts?
What is the min, max and average Num_Fires excluding census tracts with zero acres?
What 3 land ownership classes have the most total number of fires and what is the total fire_Acres for those 3 land ownership classes?
Which 5 census tracts have the highest vacancy rate?
Which 5 census tracts have the highest population density?
Which 5 census tracts have the highest number of fires per capita (per person)?