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The Weeks Bay watershed in Baldwin County, Alabama has experienced rapid changes in landuse/ landcover (LULC) from 1990 to 2000. These changes have resulted in increased upland erosion and higher concentrations of suspended sediment within the watershed. For this research project a spatial model was developed to identify potential sources of sediment relevant to LULC and slope. Landsat satellite imagery was classified to assess LULC within the Weeks Bay watershed. The classification includes forested vegetation, herbaceous vegetation (seasonal and persistent), mixed/ transitional vegetation, urban/ built-up areas, sparse/ residual vegetation and water, with an overall accuracy of 78%. Change detections of the classified images yielded substantial increases in urban areas (92.5%). These data were coupled with slope data in a geographic information system and a raster analysis provided a qualitative evaluation of potential sediment sources within the Weeks Bay watershed based on the change in LULC and slopes of the landscape.

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Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Scott A. DeLoach / A geographic information system (GIS) allows an individual to map, model, query, and analyze large quantities of data from a database according to their spatial locations. This project uses the ArcGis Java software Development Kit (SDK) to visualize, manipulate, and comprehend large amounts of publicly available information relevant to a spatial location. The application developed uses a graphical user interface to examine the public data of Riley County, Kansas. The user is able to load shapefiles through the interface and then examine the many spatial locations. By examining a spatial location the user is able to view the associated attribute information, manipulate it, and add additional attributes. Beyond viewing information at selected geometric locations, a user can also query the layer(s) to return the spatial locations that fit the query. These abilities can allow a user to understand and visualize patterns that they would not have been able to easily see from looking at the raw data. Increasing users' understanding of the environment they are working with improves their likelihood of success in their desired objectives.

This work aimed at aiding academic and CRM professionals in archaeology by developing a predictive model of prehistoric sites on the southeastern coast of Cuba. The variables in this model were identified by previous archaeological research at Guantâanamo Bay Naval Station. Both GIS analysis and weights of evidence testing were conducted on the model. The results of the GIS and statistical analysis allowed for refinement of the model. Cuba is central to understanding the prehistoric settlement of the Caribbean. The model explored not only site occurrence and environmental correlations, but also looked at intersite correlations. It was determined that site occurrences are strongly linked to low elevation, proximity to other sites, south-facing areas, mangroves, and geologic formations. This model may add to the understanding of the prehistoric settling of Cuba, as well as the interactions between native groups. / by April A. Watson. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

In the equatorial Pacific Ocean, earthquakes are used as an indicator of tectonic stress for normal faults in the Galapagos Spreading Center, transform faults along the East Pacific Rise and thrust faults in the Middle American subduction zone. Linkages between seafloor tectonic processes and oceanographic and lunar conditions were explored using time-series cross-correlation analyses on two different time scales. Data for earthquakes in the eastern tropical Pacific study area are obtained using the hydrophone arrays of the NOAA-VENTS Program. Hydroacoustic monitoring (listening to underwater sounds) provides scientists with a detailed dataset that includes even small earthquakes, starting as low as magnitude 0.6, that are not perceived by land-based seismographs. Data for sea surface heights (SSH) consist of two different datasets. On a moon's quarter time scale, SSH data used to investigate the influence of the earth tide and changes in oceanic conditions were remotely acquired by the altimeter on board the TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) satellite. SSH data used to investigate the influence of the ocean tides were obtained from the Tidal Model Driver (Padman and Erofeeva 2003), that predicts SSH for locations every hour. The Geographic Information System (GIS) was used for the visual display of the data and to compute basic descriptive statistics. A lab-book was created for the educational-outreach section of this work, explaining step by step how GIS has been used. Significant results show correlations between normal faults and ocean tides and between the thrust fault and earth tides. Also, the Quebrada and the Discovery transform faults show high correlation of earthquake events, suggesting that at such temporal and spatial resolution, the plate moves as a rigid block. / Graduation date: 2006

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Submitted by FABIANA DA SILVA FRANÇA (fabiana21franca@gmail.com) on 2018-02-01T15:30:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivo Total.pdf: 4512468 bytes, checksum: da5ef748ab81b2b7662e3ea9f5ac13fd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-01T15:30:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivo Total.pdf: 4512468 bytes, checksum: da5ef748ab81b2b7662e3ea9f5ac13fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / It is in the contact of our body with the body of the city that, in a oriented and disoriented way, we construct the geographic knowledge. We construct it from readings - from books, from our contact with the theoretically systematized knowledge, but, eminently, we construct it through our daily spacial practices held in the geographical space of the city. The walks allow us to build a way of feeling, looking and thinking about the city. By walking, we learn to read the city, that is, to uncover its socio-spatial and playful dynamics. In these wanderings, if, in a deft mode, from the perspective of geographic research, we seek to reveal the city through excursions and the description of its space, in the erratic way, we reveal it through the urban narratives: of Cordel Literature, short film, chronicles, songs and poetry, composing together corpographic images of the city. In this horizon, we ask: How do the excursions and the drifting walk, in the city, contribute to the education of the geographic looking of teachers and students, and also, in the construction of a geographic-educational environment in the city center of Campina Grande-PB? How do these walking modalities exercise a dialogic function in the articulation between Geography Teaching and Geographic Education, between science and art, between ethics and politics, in the context of our urbanity put in check here? How do these walks in the city articulate themselves to the strategies of teaching and learning, of Geography and, at the same time, the urban game, of the walk adrift? How does drifting walk distinguish and, at the same time, articulate itself with the procedural concepts of geographic research? In these terms, we aim to investigate and understand the geographic space of Campina Grande-PB, together with the teachers and students of the Licensure degree in Geography (undergraduate and graduate) at UEPB and UFPB, from itinerant and errant walks in the city center, so that we propose its transformation - psychogeographical and corpographic - in a geographic-educational environment. Considering the articulation of these two movements from looking and walking, deft and erratic, we conducted an action research expressed in a set of five walks through the center of the city of Campina Grande-PB: four geographic expeditions and a drifting walk. Through them, we walked through squares, parks, streets and avenues, in a sort of dialogue with the speeches of the looking of teachers and students in a process of establishing a geographic-educational environment in this geographical space. In order to carry out these analytic-critical dialogues with the discourses of the other's looking, we use the Discourse Analysis theory in semi-structured interviews with the teachers, and for the discourses of the students‘ looking, we use the critical and dialogical analysis of their fieldnotes. We walk between science and art in the construction of a proposal of education of the geographic looking in the city. Therefore, we articulate elements of aesthetics, science, ethics and politics to compose new ways of being in the city - expressions of our urbanity and our own civility put into construction. / É no contato de nosso corpo com o corpo da cidade que, de modo orientado e desorientado, construímos o conhecimento geográfico. Nós o construímos a partir de leituras – de livros, do nosso contato com o saber teoricamente sistematizado, mas, eminentemente, o construímos através de nossas práticas espaciais cotidianas realizadas no espaço geográfico da cidade. As caminhadas nos possibilitam construir um modo de sentir, de olhar e pensar a cidade. Caminhando aprendemos a ler a cidade, isto é, a descortinar sua dinâmica sócio-espacial e lúdica. Nestas andanças, se, de modo destro, na perspectiva da pesquisa geográfica, procuramos revelar a cidade através de excursões e da descrição do seu espaço, no modo errático, a revelamos através das narrativas urbanas: da Literatura de Cordel, curta-metragem, crônicas, músicas e poesias, compondo juntos imagens corpográficas da cidade. Nesse horizonte, indagamos: Como as excursões e a caminhada à deriva, na cidade, contribuem para a educação do olhar geográfico de docentes e discentes e, também, na construção de uma ambiência geográfico-educativa no centro da cidade de Campina Grande-PB? Como estas modalidades de caminhada exercem uma função dialógica na articulação entre o Ensino de Geografia e a Educação Geográfica, entre a ciência e a arte, entre a ética e a política, no contexto de nossa urbanidade, aqui posta em xeque? Como estas caminhadas na cidade se articulam às estratégias de ensino e aprendizagem, da Geografia e, ao mesmo tempo, ao jogo urbano, da caminhada à deriva? Como a caminhada à deriva se distingue e, ao mesmo tempo, articula-se aos conceitos procedimentais da pesquisa geográfica? Nestes termos, objetivamos investigar e compreender o espaço geográfico de Campina Grande-PB, juntamente com os docentes e discentes do Curso de Licenciatura e Pós-Graduação em Geografia da UEPB e da UFPB, a partir de caminhadas itinerantes e errantes no centro da cidade, para assim propormos sua transformação – psicogeográfica e corpográfica – numa ambiência geográfico-educativa. Considerando a articulação desses dois movimentos do olhar e do caminhar, destros e erráticos, realizamos uma pesquisa-ação expressa num conjunto de cinco caminhadas pelo centro da cidade de Campina Grande-PB: quatro excursões geográficas e uma andança à deriva. Através delas, caminhamos por praças, parques, ruas e avenidas, em diálogo com os discursos do olhar dos docentes e discentes num processo de instauração de uma ambiência geográfico-educativa neste espaço geográfico. Para a realização destes diálogos analítico-críticos com os discursos do olhar do outro, recorremos à teoria da Análise do Discurso em entrevistas semiestruturadas com os docentes, e, para os discursos do olhar discente, valemo-nos da análise crítica e dialógica dos seus cadernos de campo. Caminhamos entre a ciência e a arte na construção de uma proposta de educação do olhar geográfico na cidade. Portanto, articulamos elementos da estética, da ciência, da ética e da política para compor novas formas de ser e estar na cidade – expressões de nossa urbanidade e de nossa própria politicidade posta em construção.