Christopher Hough
Educational Artifacts
Papers from 2015-2016
Image Processing
November 30, 2016
From GIS 2 GEO363 Lab 6. The overall purpose of this lab is to understand how Hurricane Katrina affected the people and property along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. This was accomplished through 3 separate labs. The purpose of lab 6 itself was to inventory the roads of the study area, create spatially referenced aerial photos of Long Beach, MS, and create a mosaic dataset.
Sand Table project
September 17, 2016
From GIS 2 GEO363 Lab 1, a group project with three other people, of which I wrote the Methods section for. A lab to help familiarize ourselves with the process of conceptualizing a landscape, as well as develop the ability to collect spatial data and give it significance and meaning. Team work and group communication was essential in creating a smooth and visually appealing final product.
Study on Groundwater in the Upper Deschutes River Basin
April 5, 2016
From Water Resource Management GEO446. Groundwater is very important to Oregon, as most of its water supply is from wells and rivers sustained by ground water flows. The health of the groundwater is imperative to the continued excellent conditions of the surface water, so both must be protected and better managed for future use in the Upper Deschutes River Basin, Oregon. It is in the Basin’s best interest to search for alternative sources of water for use in order to avoid depleting the groundwater all together. All information was found through data base searches and comparison of secondary data sources. More research is need to get a clear picture of how to manage the groundwater.
Mapping Metropolitan Form, Phoenix, AZ
February 12, 2016
From Urban Geology GEO322. A GIS lab to map the mean year of housing units built in Phoenix, Arazona using data from the 2011 American Community Survey. The results were interpreted using the new metropolitan model from Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US.
Radar, Satellite Imagery, and Forecast Model Lab
November 15, 2015
From Meterology ESS355, lab write up. This lab used weather data to give a surface analysis on September 15th of around the Oklahoma Lawton region. Visible, Infrared, and Water Vapor Satellite maps were used to view cloud cover, temperature of the clouds, and emissions of water vapor at about 12,000 feet.