Submitted by Betty Sue Hanson on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 5:17pm
Kara's poster for Westchester GIS Day demonostrated how maps can be used to show different content or layers of data for a particular area. By combining infrared aerial photography, which is used to identify land features such as water-filled depressions, with topography and soils, a map can be used to identify rare habitats such as a "kettle shrub pool" that could be home to the rare Blanding's turlte. It's always good news to find out that these rare habitats are part of an existing open space corridor. When they're not, we have work to do.