GISC9301D3

GISC9301-ArcGIS Application
Assignment 3
GIS-Geospatial Management

Prepared by:
Md Shakhin Uz Zaman
GIS-GM Program Candidates
Niagara College
135 Tylor Road, Niagara-on-the-lake, ON
L0S 1J0

Prepared for:

Ms. Janet Finlay

Professor and Program Coordinator
GIS-Geospatial Management
Niagara College
135 Tylor Road, Niagara-on-the-lake, ON
L0S 1J0

December 13, 2016

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13 December 2016
GISC9301-D3
Ms. Janet Finlay
Professor and Program Coordinator
GIS-Geospatial Management
Niagara College
135 Tylor Road, Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON
L0S 1J0

Dear Ms. Finlay,

Re: Submission of Assignment GISC9301D3- ArcGIS Major Assignment

Please accept this letter as my formal submission of GISC9301 Assignment #3: ArcGIS Major
Assignment

This assignment sets out the spatial analysis by creating maps in ArcGIS. It includes analysis
on contaminants of 12 wineries situated in Niagara-on- the-Lake while producing wines.
Among two buffer analyses, the hydrology buffer outlines the areas that are affected by
additives that can travel up to 1200 metre from the centerline of the streams. Another one
the winery buffers outline the certain travel distance of contaminants. Finally, an overlay
analysis was created to outline the potential contaminated areas to outline the extent of
problems and solutions that can save the Niagara-on-the-Lake winery business from a
contamination crisis.

Should you have any question regarding the enclosed documents, or if there are technical
issues regarding the files please contact me at your convenience at (647) 739 8609. Thank
you for your time and attention. I look forward to your comments or suggestions.

Kindest Regards,

Md Shakhin Uz Zaman
GIS-GM graduate candidate
MZ

Enclosure: 1.) GISC9301D3- ArcGIS Major Assignment.

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ABSTRACRT
This assignment sets out the spatial analysis by creating maps in ArcGIS. It includes analysis on
contaminants of 12 wineries while producing Red, White or Rose wines situated in Niagara-on-
the-Lake. Two buffer analyses were created, one for the hydrology and the other for the wine
types. The hydrology buffer outline the areas that are affected by additives that can travel up to
1200 metre from the centerline of the streams. The winery buffers were identified by the
contaminant travel distances which are 0.5km for White wine, 1.6km for Red and 2.5km for Rose
wine. Finally, an overlay analysis was created to outline the potential contaminated areas that
wineries could produce. The processes and findings of this assignment might be applied in real
fields to outline the problems and solutions that can save the Niagara on the Lake winery business
from a contamination crisis that can damage the surroundings ecosystem.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
abstracrt .......................................................................................................................................... 2
List of Figures .................................................................................................................................. 3
1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 1
2. Background .......................................................................................................................... 1
3. Goal ...................................................................................................................................... 1
4. Procedures ........................................................................................................................... 2
1. Objective#1 ........................................................................................................................ 2
2. Objective#2 ........................................................................................................................ 2
3. Objective#3 ........................................................................................................................ 3
4. Objective#4 ........................................................................................................................ 4
5. Objective#5 ........................................................................................................................ 4
6. Objective#6 ........................................................................................................................ 6
7. Objective#7 ........................................................................................................................ 6
8. Objective#8 ........................................................................................................................ 6
9. Objective#9 ........................................................................................................................ 7
10. Objective#10 ...................................................................................................................... 7
5. Findings .............................................................................................................................. 11
6. Conclution .......................................................................................................................... 11
7. Bibliography ......................................................................................................................... 1

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Defining the projection of SID Imagery. .......................................................................... 2
Figure 2: Plotting Winery location points ....................................................................................... 3
Figure 3: Creating metadata for personal geodatabase ................................................................. 4
Figure 4: Joining Winery table with Wine location table................................................................ 5
Figure 5: Projection from GCS NAD_27 to UTM NAD_83 Zone 17N. ............................................. 5
Figure 6: Buffering of winery features ............................................................................................ 6

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Figure 7: Result of winery buffer analysis ....................................................................................... 7

Figure 8: Buffering of Hydrology features ...................................................................................... 8
Figure 9: Result of hydrology buffer analysis ................................................................................. 8
Figure 10: Making union of White, Red and Rose wine buffers ..................................................... 9
Figure 11: Dissolving the outline of previous buffers to make a new one ..................................... 9
Figure 12: Intersecting between new buffer of wine type and hydrology buffer. ....................... 10
Figure 13: Result of overlay analysis ............................................................................................. 10

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1. INTRODUCTION
The Niagara Peninsula is in the southern part of Ontario province. It lies between Lake Ontario
in the north and Lake Erie to the south. Its eastern boundary is defined by the Niagara River
while Niagara Escarpment extend east to west across the Peninsula.

Niagara is a prime grape-growing region. Its distinct geographical location creates this area
with moderate temperature spring and summer season for growing grapes. It has 13,600
acres under vine(Source-). It accounts for over 93% grape growing volume and about 85% of
the wineries in Ontario situated in the Niagara Peninsula. The industry contributes $10,000 to
the economy for every tone of grape grown and produces and 1.6 million tourists visits the
wineries per year. Therefore, it is impotent to understand the process that can be affected by
the steam or river water or vice-versa.

2. BACKGROUND
This assignment has completed using two different set of data,

1. Winery database
Winery database has been created using Access 2013 as a part of assignment of the
course GISC9303-GIS database and Data Warehouse Concept. Is has five tables which are
Winery table, Wine variety table, Wine product table, Wine type table and Location
table. Each table has information on selected twelve wineries such as winery locations,
name, logo, number of bottle produces, wine type etc. The location table has UTM
coordinates collected by field visit using GPS device which allow to create point map
using ArcGIS software.
2. GIS data set
GIS data set have been provided as a part of this assignment. It has information on
imagery of Niagara region, municipal boundary, hydrology, and road network to create
the required layers which are necessary for spatial analysis.

3. GOAL
The goal of this assignment is to apply all the methods and concepts that have be taught in
the introductory GISC9301-ArcGIS Applications course, particularly the usage of ArcMap,
ArcCatalogue and ArcToolbox to create layers, personal geodatabases and to analyse the
spatial data.

The deliverables of this assignment are to create maps of winery buffer analysis, hydrology
buffer analysis and overlay analysis of these tow buffers. Winery buffer analysis will show the
distance that the additives will migrate by the certain wine type in the streams. Hydrology
buffer analysis will show how close wineries are to waterways and intersection layers that will
be produces by overlay will show the areas that are likely to be experienced by contamination.

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4. PROCEDURES

1. Objective#1

The first objective was to crate a point location map of winery. The first step to do this was
adding a D.O.I raster imagery (Mr. Sid Compressed) on the base map. Prior to this step a
geodatabase was created under the last name Zaman.mdb. The raster image had no
coordinates and needed to be defined. This was done by using ArcToolbox and defining the
projection, and defining its system under NAD1983_UTM_Zone_17N.

Figure 1: Defining the projection of SID Imagery.

2. Objective#2

the Winery Tables d3RawWinery.mdb (mdb format) were imported in ArcCatalogue through
the database connection. Since the UTM coordinates of locations were collected using a GPS
that uses UTM NAD 83 no projections were necessary to plot in ArcMap after configuring
the XY data into Easting and Northing. In this way, a point map of 12 wineries of Niagara on
the Lake was created. Next, they temporary XY plot exported and brought into the personal
geodatabase.

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Figure 2: Plotting Winery location points

3. Objective#3

Information that describes items in ArcGIS is called metadata. In an item's metadata, it

records whatever information is important to know about such as a title, picture, summary,
tags credits etc (Figure 3). put together the information of the personal geodatabase. By
editing the database, it allows to produce the summary of the map and its data in an organized
manner. When care has been taken to provide good descriptions, you can find appropriate
items with a search and evaluate which of the items in your search results is the correct one
to use.

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Figure 3: Creating metadata for personal geodatabase

4. Objective#4

For spatial analysis, winery table is needed to be join with winery location table. This was
done by using join data tab by matching a common field that both tables were connected
by, which was the WineryID field (Figure 4).

5. Objective#5

At this stage, of the National Topographic Database series was imported into the personal
geodatabase. It had the two road files ROADL_revised.shp and road_l.shp. The first
feature class, ROADL_revised.shp had coordinates that were set to NAD 1927 and therefore
needed the projection to be defined as UTM NAD 83 Zone 17N. This was done through
ArcToolbox choosing the mentioned projection (Figure 5). The second one, Road_l.shp was
also imported. This dataset had an undefined coordinate system. In he same way
asROADL_revised.shp, it was defined to UTM NAD 83 Zone 17N.

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Figure 4: Joining Winery table with Wine location table

Figure 5: Projection from GCS NAD_27 to UTM NAD_83 Zone 17N.

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6. Objective#6

To outline the Niagara on the Lake border to distinguish it from the other municipalities,
Niagara Municipal boundary layer was then exported from AutoCAD into the personal
geodatabase. The Municipal boundaries were not defined in desired projection system. To be
usable in the project, the coordinate system had to be changed to the UTM NAD 83 Zone 17N
from its original coordinate GCS NAD83 using project tab in ArcToolbox

7. Objective#7

the Hydrology data in ArcInfo had to be exported as a layer into the personal geodatabase to
outline the locations of the streams in Niagara on the Lake. The data line feature class to be
usable in the project, the coordinate system had to be changed to the UTM NAD 83 Zone 17N
from its original coordinate GCS NAD83 using project tab in ArcToolbox.

8. Objective#8

Prior to take buffering process, a new field named Wine Type was created and populated by
the type of wine produced such as White, Red and Rose wine. The next process was to select
each type of wine in the attributes table for example all the rose, white and red wines
together on separate classes. Then, it was then exported into the personal geodatabase
which grouped the wineries by the wine type. The next method was to buffer each type of
wine on the map (Figure-6). The buffers were identified by the contaminant travel distances
which are 0.5km for White wine, 1.6km for Red and 2.5km for Rose. Figures 7 is representing
the distance that the additives will migrate by the certain wine type in the streams.

Figure 6: Buffering of winery features

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Figure 7: Result of winery buffer analysis

9. Objective#9

A buffer of hydrology was taken by using buffer tab in analysis tools. It was states in the terms
of reference that all the streams in this analysis can be impacted by the chemicals up to 1200
meters away from the centerline. Therefore, 1200 meters was inputted in the distance field.
to limit the buffer to the desired distance. The resulting buffer created the Map in Figure 8.
The result in figure 9 is shown that contamination can impact all steams up to 1200 from the
stream centerline.

10. Objective#10

Overlay process involve joining two existing sets of features into a single set of features to
identify spatial relationships between the input features. To carried out an overlay analysis
for the buffers derived in the objectives 8 and 9. A union overlay was carried out which still
includes non-overlapping areas. To create a union the union option was chosen in analysis
tools and wine types such as red, white and rose were selected as input features (Figure-10).
The next procedure was to remove the previous buffer that outlined the wine types. In
ArcToolbox, the dissolve button was used and it created a new feature that did not include
the outline of wine types (Figure-11). After that it was overlaid with the hydrology buffer by
selecting intersect button in analysis tools (Figure-12). The result is shown in figure-13to show

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those areas that are likely to be experienced by contamination and/or water quality
impairment.

Figure 8: Buffering of Hydrology features

Figure 9: Result of hydrology buffer analysis

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Figure 10: Making union of White, Red and Rose wine buffers

Figure 11: Dissolving the outline of previous buffers to make a new one

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Figure 12: Intersecting between new buffer of wine type and hydrology buffer.

Figure 13: Result of overlay analysis

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5. FINDINGS
In figure 7, the Winery buffers map outlines the contaminant travel distances which are 0.5km
for White wine, 1.6km for Red and 2.5km for Rose type of wines the wineries produce. The
map shows the buffer areas of all types of wine are extended into Lake Ontario, which is a
huge water source which contribute significantly to an ecosystem's productivity and
biodiversity.

After analyzing the hydrology buffer in figure 9 can be seen that there is a possibility of
contaminating rivers and streams in Niagara-on-The-Lake and St. Catharines municipal areas
that could lead to health issues to the people of these areas.

the Overlay analysis in figure 13, three distinct contaminated areas are present around the
wineries. The are the Northern, Eastern, and Southern part of the Niagara-On-The-Lake
municipal area. Among them the Northern part is most notable area for contamination due
to majority of the wineries located at this area.

After analyzing all the circumstances, it can be recommended that a detailed further study
should be carried out for completed data on contaminants sources, pathways, resident time,
and its effect on environmental health to ensure the necessary steps to be taken.

6. CONCLUSION
Niagara region is famous for winery and the best wines are produced here. While wine
producing is an important industry, the contaminants from the wine making process affect on
the environment. The area located around the winery are more prone to be contaminated as
the above finding showed. Therefore, more attention for those areas is required to ensure
that contamination levels should not reach above certain recommended limits where
members of the community and the ecosystem could be at risk.

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7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Terms of references for GISC9301 Assignment 3.

2. http://www.grapegrowersofontario.com/vineyard/viticultural_areas/niagara_peninsula.