{"id":233,"date":"2023-04-15T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T19:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-193\/?p=233"},"modified":"2023-04-15T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T19:54:54","slug":"nair-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/2023\/04\/15\/nair-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Nair &#8211; Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0Chapter 3:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chapter gets started with geoprocessing and how to use it in parallel with the Python Window.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Getting the Geoprocessing pane to open and understanding how it works was easy for me as I\u2019ve used some of the tools for GIS 191<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I came across three different types of tools:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Built-in tools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Built with compiled programming languages like C++ For example The Clip Tool\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Script Tools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Built using scripting languages like Python. For example Mean Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Model Tools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Built using models like Model Builder. For example My Model\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dialog box is also something that I\u2019m well acquainted with due to GIS 191<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also used a map from one of the GIS 191 databases to try the \u201c<\/span><b>Clip<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d and \u201c<\/span><b>Intersect<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d tools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also came across the <\/span><b>Environment Settings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the<\/span><b> Analysis Tab<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which can be specified for better efficient usage of the tools.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These environment settings can be coded, or used through individual tools as well \\<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also came across <\/span><b>Batch Processing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which is running the same tools multiple times with different parameters. <\/span><b>Dynamic naming <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of the tool&#8217;s output datasets must receive special consideration so that a unique name is used for every iteration of the batch tool. Batch tool outputs are dynamically named using the %Name% variable in output parameters.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">t<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Batch mode can also take in multiple raster variables and determine multiple statistics in one go\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then I used the<\/span><b> Model Builder<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. I had used this before for GIS 191. Unfortunately, the dataset I was using did not have variables of different kinds, which posed a problem in connecting the shapes, I believe, But I did not fret about it as I had done this before.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For scripting, I noticed that some of the ways, the code for<\/span><b> Clip(Analysis Tool)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> worked had been changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I just had to mention the input layers when I used Clip and the output name, and it gave back the perfect result when I ran the code<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also saw the Python Code for \u201c<\/span><b>Split By Attribute<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d in the <\/span><b>Analysis Toolbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which was really cool.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Chapter 4:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 4th chapter is about learning how Python works and its syntax\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This chapter was a bit easy for me because I\u2019ve done Python before and only had to review some stuff to get started\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also came across Unicode (which helps you print out special characters that might not be in English) which I hadn\u2019t before.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Chapter 3:\u00a0 The chapter gets started with geoprocessing and how to use it in parallel with the Python Window.\u00a0 Getting the Geoprocessing pane to open and understanding how it works was easy for me as I\u2019ve used some of the <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/2023\/04\/15\/nair-week-4\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}