In lab 3, I did a GIS Analysis to determine areas in Vancouver that would be at risk of danger from a storm surge, tsunami or sea level rise. In this lab, I created two maps, one of the danger area in Vancouver along with land use in those areas, locations where signage is needed, and roads,
and one of the dangerous area around the proposed new location of St. Paul’s hospital.
I also determined which education and health facilities were in the danger area. They were as follows:
HEALTH
- Villa Cathay Care Home
- Broadway Pentecostal Lodge
- Yaletown House Society
- False Creek Residence
EDUCATION:
- Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (ECIAD)
- Henry Hudson Elementary
- False Creek Elementary
- St Anthony of Padua
- Ecole Rose des Vents
In order to find this, I selected by location to select features (of the facilities) that intersected the layer I had created of the danger area. I then created a layer of the selected features, and opened the attribute table of the layer to find their names. I did this with both education and health.
In this lab, I also discovered that the entirety of the new site for the St. Paul’s Hospital is within the danger area. This means that the area is less then 10m above sea level and less than 1 km away from the shore, so it would be very likely be damaged by a flood, which is very concerning given the importance of hospitals and expected difficulties with their evacuation.
Accomplishment statement
Used tools in ArcGIS (edited features, created buffers, selected by location, intersected layers and converted between raster and vector data) in order to analyze potential flood hazard zones.
