{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "Ridges protected by the Mountain and Hillside Development Ordinance", "description": "
Converted filled DEM (for the whole county) to an ASCII file<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> Imported the DEM ASCII file into SAGA<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> Executed Topographic Position Index (TPI) tool on this DEM (tool found in the Terrain Analysis > Morphometry toolset)<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> Saved the Output file in SAGA to an SDAT file<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> Used the Raster to Other Format tool in ArcMap to convert the SDAT file to a TIFF<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> Played with different classification schemes in ArcMap to figure out how to best delineate the ridges; settled on 2 classes: -176.2945251 \u2013 3 and 3 \u2013 196.7315979. The second class represented the ridge tops fairly well. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> Used the Reclassify tool to create a new raster layer with only this second class (the first was changed to NoData) <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> The Extract by Mask tool was used to clip this raster layer to the Protected Ridge Areas vector layer<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI> The Raster to Polygon tool was used to convert this raster layer into a polygon layer. The \u201cSimplify Polygons\u201d box was left unchecked <\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI><\/OL><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>",
"summary": "Ridges protected by the Mountain and Hillside Development Ordinance",
"title": "MHD_ProtectedRidges",
"tags": [
"Mountains",
"ridges"
],
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"typeKeywords": [],
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"minScale": 150000000,
"maxScale": 5000,
"spatialReference": "",
"accessInformation": "Jackson County GIS Department",
"licenseInfo": ""
}