GIS Maps for CASES Region

GIS Maps of CASES Region

Images generated courtesy of

University of Colorado Center for the Study of Earth from Space (CSES)/CIRES
Alex Goetz CSES Director goetz@cses	Leanne Lestak GIS Project Manager lestak@cses.colorado.edu	Dave Hulslander Project Technician deh@cses.colorado.edu

Credits:

All watershed boundaries, the drainage network and the 1:250,000 DEM (Digital Elevation Model) data (which was originally created by the USGS) was downloaded from the State of Kansas Geographic Information Systems Initiative's Data Access and Support Center (DASC).
The cities were obtained from Patricia A. Berger at Oregan State University Biosystems Analysis Group in Bioresource Engineering ( bergerp@alecto.bre.orst.edu).
The road network and railways are from the 1:1,000,000 scale Digital Chart of the World (DCW) which was mapped by the Defense Mapping Agency. ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) digitized the DCW and converted it into ARC/INFO format.
The USGS 1:250,000 DEM data has some inherent problems. When the data is scanned, stripes or terraced features are created. A low-pass filter was used to smooth these features. The filter creates a more realistic model. The filtered DEM was used to create the aspect map and one of the hillshaded graphics.
The maps are not final. They need scalebars. Some have a UTM grid overlaid such as the slope and aspect maps. The shaded relief maps don't have grids or north arrows at this point: north is in the upwards direction.

	GIF file	PS file	Map Description

CASES related maps:
	cases.gif	cases.ps.gz	Shaded relief location map of study area with overlay of rivers in blue, watershed boundary in red and roads and rails in black.
	cities.gif	cities.ps.gz	B/W map of the cites and watershed boundary.
	watershed.gif	watershed.ps.gz	Walnut watershed and sub-watersheds in red, rivers in blue and roads and rails in black.
	aspect.gif	aspect.ps.gz	Aspect relief using low-pass filter on DEM.
	slope.gif	slope.ps.gz	Degree slope generated from non-filtered DEM.
	fre4.gif	fre4.ps.gz	Four highest frequency distributions of slope vs. aspect.
	freq11.gif	freq11.ps.gz	Eleven highest frequency distributions of slope vs. aspect.
	hillshd.gif	hillshd.ps.gz	Non-filtered shaded relief from DEM.
	flthillshd.gif	flthillshd.ps.gz	Low-pass filtered shaded relief from DEM.