Nathan Sturgill

Delaware Public Utilities Department GIS internship

October 1, 2021

Weeks 3 & 4

      For week three I went over more ESRI tutorials and learned how to get started with LIDAR imagery used in remote sensing. This can be a very useful skill for the future and will help me stand out amongst my peers. I also reviewed the basics of ArcGIS to prepare me for week 4 and this included becoming familiar with all the basics again and learning to use ArcOnline more efficiently for the internship. 

     Week 4 has been the most informative week of the semester thus far. I have learned more about the city of Delawares GIS system and what goes into creating their base maps in ArcGIS that aid workers in placing work orders and mitigating problems across the city of Delaware. I am also learning to create my own base map as an intern and plan to help aid Janelle in creating solutions using GIS technology. I have learned to create a map of storm drainage pipelines located beneath soon-to-be-developed land within the city of Delaware and during this process, I have learned to distinguish between manholes, inlets, and outlets that are connected to the larger storm drainage system in place. A project like this can help engineers when planning and constructing the soon-to-be-developed land. Adding things in from Arc Catalog has taken some time because of the amount of data that the city of Delaware contains in their ArcGIS inventory. With all of this said I am excited to start another week for the internship and I look forward to working with more fieldwork/data in the future. Next week I will also continue the progress on creating my base map for the internship and will learn to create a definition query that can help solve problems related to the functionality of the system. On the agenda as well will be to work with different record drawings that show the layout of certain areas of the city and working on the details of these drawings to translate them into ArcGIS.