Final Project Statement

The goal of our final project was to analyze the amount of agricultural land in the Central Coast area. British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) has been cited as one of the best examples of agricultural land preservation in the world and is considered by many as a pillar of regional food security in B.C. The ALR is a provincial land use zone wherein agriculture is recognized as the priority use for approximately 4.6% of the land base of British Columbia, Canada. Even though Central Coast is close to the Pacific Ocean, there is a limited agricultural land reserve for using. To analyze this project, we have constituted a group for 4 people and we also allocate jobs well. I am responsible for the map making, another member, Ziyu, he is responsible for the data collecting. Ji and Tina are responsible for the final report. Actually, even though the map making is my duty, I really thanks to all my members. When I have difficulty to make the slop of our study area or input the census data which downloading from the website. My members try to help me and arrange their time to meet with me. Also I want to say thank you to other groups and my TA, Eva, when I ask them questions, they are all friendly and patient. Through this final project, I have learned some interesting things. First, through our final analysis, we find that there are only almost 3200 people living in Central Coast. In addition, among these people, there are a few people whose age is between 20 to 45. This means that population is a limited for Central Coast area to develop the agriculture. Thus, if government can increase more immigrants for here, the agriculture will be promoted. Secondly, through this project, I know how to calculate the slope and how to save to the final shapefile. I believe that these skills will be helpful for me when I continue to take Geob 370. Thirdly, when Ziyu tried to find the data, some are difficult for the public. For example, the landcover data has lots of columns, if we do not use a reading related to these number. We cannot know what these are. Also it is difficult for us to find the census data for Bella Cola, which is the largest town in the Central Coast area. We just can find the number but not data resource in Chass website for GIS analysis. As a whole, we are a good team, everyone spends lots of time and effort on it. Also this course is an interesting course, we have learned lots of GIS skills through this course. For me, who wants to take jobs about GIS works, this is a wonderful semester.

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