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Arcmap Basics: Wpes, How Do I...? Quick Guide, Bea E. Van Dam

Non-Thesis Student Work

This document is a quick guide to performing common geospatial tasks in ArcMap 10.x (ArcGIS Desktop) for new users. Covered are basic navigation of the ArcMap window; importing, opening, querying, editing, and exporting data; and map preparation. In many cases, there are multiple ways to accomplish different tasks; presented here are the methods the author finds easiest or most straightforward. Mouse click sequences and menu/tool layout may differ if using previous versions of ArcMap.

Covid-19 And Outdoor Recreation In Maine And New Hampshire: Analysis Of Trends Using Passive Visitation Data, Andrea Knapp

Honors College

The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated alterations to the way people approach and practice outdoor recreation. Access to outdoor areas has changed rapidly in response to measures like travel bans, closures, and health and safety guidelines. Recreation managers have had to act quickly to keep up with these visitor use fluctuations in order to protect resources from use degradation. I explored how pandemic effects have changed visitation behaviors and trends in outdoor recreation in Acadia National Park and the White Mountain National Forest. Acadia National Park is a well-known and highly trafficked outdoor recreation area with over 3 million visits annually …

Arcmap Hydrology Toolset: Wpes, How Do I...? Quick Guide, Bea E. Van Dam

Non-Thesis Student Work

This document provides guidance for performing hydrologic tasks using the Hydrology Toolset in ArcMap 10.x (ArcGIS Desktop). Covered here are an overview of the uses and limitations of the tools within the Hydrology Toolset, related tools from from additional ArcGIS toolsets, and step-by-step instructions for hydrologic workflows including digital elevation model (DEM) preparation, pit fill detection, "burning in" culverts for proper flow path routing, watershed and stream network delineation, and flow network statistics.

Marine Research In Focus: Counteracting The ‘Myth Of Dry Feet’ In Dutch Planning For Flood Defense, Kristen Grant

Maine Sea Grant Publications

Coastal residents and towns need strategies to address climate change and its effects on sea-level rise, shoreline erosion, and coastal flooding. Extreme weather events can cause millions of dollars in damage and threaten coastal ecosystems and local economies. The Building a Resilient Coast project seeks to provide stakeholders with easy access to information to facilitate planning for climate and hazards impacts.

Official Zoning Map City Of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, Cai Technologies

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Waterboro Maine Property Maps, Sebago Technics, Inc.

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Property Maps Woodstock Maine, James W. Sewall Co., John E. O'Donnell & Associates

Maine Town Documents

Original maps prepared by James W. Sewell, Co.
Revised in 2018 by John E. O'Donnell & Associates.

Town Of Winslow Property Maps, Winslow (Me.).

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

City Of Westbrook, Maine Street Index Map, Gis Mapping & Analysis

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Wayne Maine Zoning Map, Cai Technologies

Maine Town Documents

Original zoning map for Wayne, Maine created in 1973. The map was first revised in May 1978 and again in June 2018. Property lines in this map is current as of April 1, 2017.

City Of Westbrook, Maine Zoning Map, Gis Mapping & Analysis

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Town Of Windham Cumberland County, Maine 2017 Property Maps, Windham (Me.). Tax Assessor's Office, James W. Sewall Co.

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Property Maps Waldoboro Maine, 2017, John E. O'Donnell & Associates, Darryl L. Mckenney

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Property Maps Town Of West Bath, Maine, James H. Thomas Gissolutions Of Maine

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Public Shoreline Access In Maine: A Citizen’S Guide To Coastal And Ocean Law, John Duff, Liana James, Victoria Labate

Maine Sea Grant Publications

Getting to coastal waters in Maine can sometimes be a challenge, for despite the state’s 5,400 miles of mainland and island shoreline, only about 12% is in public ownership. Yet the public does have longstanding, although limited, rights to support traditional coastal uses along privately owned shoreline. In addition to the rights to “fish, fowl, and navigate,” members of the public have a variety of other means to secure access to shoreline areas and ocean waters. With more people attracted to Maine’s coastline for a variety of uses, it is important to understand the range of access rights that accommodate …

Whiting Maine Property Maps, James W. Sewall Company, Eastern Mapping Services

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Town Of West Bath Land Use Ordinance District And Overlay Zone Map, West Bath (Me.). Municipal Officers

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Property Maps Waldoboro Maine, 2016, John E. O'Donnell & Associates, Darryl L. Mckenney

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Spatio-Temporal Landscape Patterns For Protected Areas In Northern New England: 1099-2010, Spencer Meyer, Mary-Kate Beard-Tisdale, Christopher S. Cronan, Robert Lilieholm

Publications

Context: Landscape ecology theory provides insight about how large assemblages of protected areas (PAs) should be configured to protect biodiversity. We adapted these theories to evaluate whether the emergence of decentralized land protection in a largely private landscape followed the principles of reserve design. Objectives: Our objectives were to determine: (1) Are there distinct clusters of PAs in time and space? (2) Are PAs becoming more spatially clustered through time? and (3) Does the resulting PA portfolio have traits characteristic of ideal reserve design? Methods: We developed an historical dataset of the PAs enacted since 1900 in the northern New …

Iii: Small: A Theory Of Topological Relations For Compound Spatial Objects, Max J. Egenhofer Editor

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

Spatial data collections with an incomplete coverage yield regions with holes and separations that often cannot be filled by interpolation. Geosensor networks typically generate such configurations, and with the proliferation of sensor colonies, there is now an urgent need to provide users with better information technologies of cognitively plausible methods to search for or compare available spatial data sets that may be incomplete. The objective of the investigations is to advance knowledge about qualitative spatial relations for spatial regions with holes and/or separations.

The core activity is the study of the interplay between topological spatial relations with holed regions and …

Town Of Winter Harbor Property Maps, James W. Sewall Company

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Town Of Westport Island Property Maps, Westport Island (Me.).

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

High-Precision Land-Cover-Land-Use Gis Mapping And Land Availability And Suitability Analysis For Grass Biomass Production In The Aroostook River Valley, Maine, Usa., Chunzeng Wang, Jason Johnston, David Vail, Jared Diskinson, David Putnam

Publications

High-precision land-cover-land-use GIS mapping was performed in four major townships in Maine’s Aroostook River Valley, using on-screen digitization and direct interpretation of very high spatial resolution satellite multispectral imagery (15–60 cm) and high spatial resolution LiDAR data (2 m) and the field mapping method. The project not only provides the first-ever high-precision land-use maps for northern Maine, but it also yields accurate hectarage estimates of different land-use types, in particular grassland, defined as fallow land, pasture, and hay field. This enables analysis of potential land availability and suitability for grass biomass production and other sustainable land uses. The results show …

Mobility In The Mangroves: Catch Rates, Daily Decisions, And Dynamics Of Artisanal Fishing In A Coastal Commons, Christine M. Beitl

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

This paper integrates institutional theories of the commons with insights from geography and human behavioral ecology to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of artisanal fishing in Ecuador’s coastal mangrove swamps. The focus is on the cockle fishery commons characterized by a mixture of formal institutional arrangements and an informal division of fishing space that partially influences fisher decisions about where and when to fish. Individual decisions are further explained to a certain degree by the patch choice model since fishers often move on to new grounds when their catch rates fall below average. These optimizing strategies requiring rotation within …

Property Maps Waldoboro Maine, 2015, John E. O'Donnell & Associates, Darryl L. Mckenney

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Weld Maine Property Maps, James W. Sewall Company

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Property Maps Weston Maine, James W. Sewell Co., Weston (Me.).

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Iii:Small: Information Integration And Human Interaction For Indoor And Outdoor Spaces, Michael Warboys, Nicholas Giudice

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

The goal of this research project is to provide a framework model that integrates existing models of indoor and outdoor space, and to use this model to develop an interactive platform for navigation in mixed indoor and outdoor spaces. The user should feel the transition between inside and outside to be seamless, in terms of the navigational support provided. The approach consists of integration of indoors and outdoors on several levels: conceptual models (ontologies), formal system designs, data models, and human interaction. At the conceptual level, the project draws on existing ontologies as well as examining the "affordances" that the …

Pushing The Pace Of Tree Species Migration, Eli D. Lazarus, Brian Mcgill

Publications

Plants and animals have responded to past climate changes by migrating with habitable environments, sometimes shifting the boundaries of their geographic ranges by tens of kilometers per year or more. Species migrating in response to present climate conditions, however, must contend with landscapes fragmented by anthropogenic disturbance. We consider this problem in the context of wind-dispersed tree species. Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal make these species capable of rapid migration rates. Models of species-front migration suggest that even tree species with the capacity for long-distance dispersal will be unable to keep pace with future spatial changes in temperature gradients, exclusive …

Navigating Over Space And Time: Fishing Effort Allocation And The Development Of Customary Norms In An Open-Access Mangrove Estuary In Ecuador, Christine M. Beitl

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Fisheries are increasingly understood as complex adaptive systems; but the cultural, behavioral, and cognitive factors that explain spatial and temporal dynamics of fishing effort allocation remain poorly understood. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a visualization tool, this paper combines catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) and ethnographic data about the Ecuadorian mangrove cockle fishery to explore patterns in fishing effort and the social production of fishing space. I argue that individual decisions about where, when, and how to fish result in spatial and temporal patterns in effort allocation, ultimately regulating open-access fisheries that typically operate on a first-come, first-serve basis. These emergent patterns …