Calculating Impervious Cover in the City of Austin

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Pupils use GIS to calculate park impervious cover in Austin, TX. They consider that there are different types of impervious cover from hard, packed dirt to cement paving. Students consider the limitations of data in several areas including the date the data layer was actually created and how the data is measured.

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