Final Day Progress 5/7

Today I finished the scanning of all orthophotos that I had for the study area. I now have a mostly completed rock glacier database with locations marked as point features.

The only thing left for me to do is find someway to get the data to Brad so it can be used at a later stage.

I will most likely send him my completed rock glacier database, since it is a relatively small shapefile. The things that take up the most space seem to be the DEM data and orthophotos which are readily available on other websites.

Currently completed 90/90 hours as of 5/7/2009

Progress for 5/5

Today I have been working on scanning through the additional orthophotos that I have left. I have finished scanning the following counties today:

• Dolores county
• Gunnison county
• Saguache county

The only counties that I have left to scan are:

• Conejos county
• Archuleta county
• Rio Grande county

These last 3 counties have relatively small places to scan since they lie on the periphery of my study area and only have a few places with a high probability or rock glaciers.

I also currently have about 750 possible rock glaciers labeled in my rock glacier database, which is much higher than the initial 600 in the original paper.

I will most likely finish up the scanning of the remaining 3 counties tomorrow, and since I have 6 hours left in the independent study I will try to eliminate any errors and gather up all of my data so that I can give it to Brad before the semester is over with.

Currently completed 85/90 hours as of 5/5/2009

Progress for 5/1

Today I was able to complete the scanning of 3 counties for my rock glacier database. These 3 counties (La Plata, Hinsdale, and Mineral county) were the hardest yet since they were right in the center of the study area. This meant that nearly the whole county fell into the "probable rock glacier site" overlay I have been using. So basically I had to scan through the whole counties quadrant by quadrant looking for rock glaciers....but I am finally done with these hard counties.

So far I have scanned:

• Ouray county
• La Plata county
• San Miguel county
• San Juan county
• Hinsdale county
• Mineral county

The following counties will be much easier since only a portion of the county needs to be scanned. The remaining counties to be scanned are:

• Dolores county
• Gunnison county
• Sagauche county
• Conejos county
• Archuleta county

And these counties are the only ones for which I haven't obtained orthophotography for yet:

• Rio Grande county
• Archuleta county

So for my last 10 hour of this independent study I am very confident that I will be able to finish these tasks in order to complete the preliminary rock glacier database. Obviously, it will need to be double checked and even field checked in some places, but that won't be my job.

The screenshot below is my progress as of today (5/1/2009) on the rock glacier database. I have the DEM as the base layer, probable rock glacier locations in orange, and actual rock glaciers as triangle-point features.



Currently completed 80/90 hours as of 5/1/2009