Blog Post 3

This week I have been working on adding a US Forest Fragmentation layer from ArcGIS online.



I am hoping to overlap or line this data up with my habitat data raster.
I am working on acquiring additional data as well from eBird, which I have to request from them by writing an abstract. That is what I will be working on this coming week.
I also have data about US Urban Areas that I was hoping to compare with the peregrine falcon habitat data, but the data only shows when zoomed in because there is a lot of data, so I would not be able to show the US as a whole. I will be deciding whether to use or scrap this data this week as well.

Blog Post 2

So far the progress I have made for my course project is displaying data on two maps. I have one map that displays raster data of suitable peregrine falcon habitat. This USGS data is based on 2001 ground conditions. They applied a deductive habitat model to "remotely-sensed data layers within the species known range." There is also a vector map of the known range, which is also based on 2001 ground conditions, and was "created by attributing sub-watershed polygons with information of a species presence, origin, seasonal and reproductive use."

I am a bit torn about whether I should use one over the other, or both. One of my main concerns with this data is that the ground conditions are based in 2001. The metadata does point to the fact that the data was compiled between 2008 and 2013, which is more recent. I cannot find nationwide data that is more recent than that. 

My next steps will be applying forest fragmentation data and urbanization effects on the displayed habitat/range data.