Custom geopdfs for Áak’w
Custom geopdf for Áak’w. Download this, along with a color infrared 2013 aerial covering the same area. Links below.
On our first class, we loaded the navigational app Avenza to our phones, and tested out this geopdf. You can get to know the app and these ‘training-maps’ on walks around the lake, or on the trail to housing. In addition to recording tracks, you’ll create photopoints and zip them, with track, into a Google Earth kmz for sharing and archiving. This’ll become standard procedure on our adventures this fall.
Download this bare earth geopdf, (10MB) 
Background and explanations for this map are presented in a scoping/journaling pdf that will soon be downloadable as a draft#1. Soon you will gaze upon conifer-clad slopes & flats, near & far, and diagnose them with ease: colluvium; alluvium, moraine, raised ancient marine
Similarly-framed mate to this veg-stripped ‘bare earth’ is a 2013 color infrared (12MB) , Sure, those trees hide the landforms. But with time you’ll be using them as clues to substrate.
One of the best ways to study changes over time is with what I call “pageflippers“—pdf collections of precisely registered aerial photos and maps, aligned for point-to-point comparison on adjacent pages. A set of pageflippers for UAS and Auke Bay Elementary is here.
