From ArcMap, various calculations were made and compared to come up with the best solutions based on accessibility, avalanche statistics, extreme weather statistics, and slopes.

Before starting, i needed to gather data from UBC’s geography department drive. I aquired several files:

• A BC cartographic map
• A BC wind vector map
• BC regions districts map 2006
• 6 DEMs at 30m resolution
• BC parks map

I first had to figure out what the district code was for the regions within my area of interest. This was done using the districts map and using identify to find the district codes. Looking up the same codes, I was able to aquire the correct DEMs. Next, the DEMs needed to be mashed into a single DEM, so using ArcToolbox, the mosaic command combined these successfully. This was the DEM map.

Next was the TIN creation. This was easily done by the toolbox ‘from raster’ option. This gave me my second map.

With now both a raster and vector map of elevations in my AOI, I could potentially create any surface map. The maps that followed were aspect, hillshade, and contour maps.