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
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