a Step-by-Step Guide for SWARS Geospatial Analysis

As promised, I'm starting to put together this step-by-step guide for conducting the spatial analysis for SWARS. This will be a very detailed and technical guide designed for you GIS specialist. Because of that "high requirment", it's not gonna be ready in a day or two. Plus, I will have video clips to accompany some of the steps. So, read along as new writings become available here or on the page desiganated for the document here: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg4763rp_42hf45563n.

I don't think you would need this document to be completedly available to start your work on SWARS, especially after the intense training last week in Honolulu. You should have learned enough to get started.

As I said more than a million times, there is a lot of work needed to be done before you even start to prepare your first layer. Defining the issue(s) alone will take some lengthy discussions sand debates. Then the layer rankings and weights, the class values for your rasters and how to get your original layers, continuous raster or themaic vector, all these questions are to be answered first.

Hoptefuly our repeated practices in the workshop on all that tasks have prepared you for the coming battles. Don't be shy! You need to and should be active in those meetings and discussions. You need to help to initiate, facilitate, and lead some of the discussions. Don't forget, in the end, you are responsible to implement all the anlyses. Without a well defined path and target, you could run into all kinds of problems later on. If that happens, yourself is partially to be blamed.