Methods
Editing and Conversion Data from Shapefile to TerrSet
To begin, I first downloaded all of my data into ArcMap so that I could ensure that all files were using the same projected coordinate system: NAD83 UTM zone 10N. Once these were all aligned, I clipped any data that lied outside of the study area (Maple Ridge). Importing the data to TerrSet proved a challenge. To do this, I transformed the neighbourhoods shape file into a raster file (Poly to Raster) and then transformed the raster file into an ASCII (Raster to ASCII). This was then imported into TerrSet using ESRI format ARCRASTER to IDRISI. Then, I used the module initial to create a blank image that had the cell size, coordinate system and projection I would need to use all of my other data. To get the rest of the data into Terrset I had to import my data using SHAPEIDR and then transformed the shapefiles that I edited in Arc into a vector file. I made sure that the reference system was the same for all of these and then transformed them into raster files using the blank image created with the neighbourhood attributes from the initial module as the reference image. This way all of my files lined up and could be evaluated against each other.
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