This is a professional version by the NOAA (NOT MY WORK) Just wanted to show what it should have looked like. It is an important event and I feel that the correct image should be shown.

My attempt.

It's great to show that the damage wasn't only in New Orleans. This exercise may take on a greater importance with the outlook for numerous hurricanes this year.

Final project

http://students.uwf.edu/cmc54/presentation.pptx
http://students.uwf.edu/cmc54/summary.docx

Spring Break Lab Exercise

I tried to minimize the clutter on this map so that the parcels had the spotlight. I included roads, urban areas and some of the hydrology for reference. I decided to dissolve the parcels using Arc Toolbox to remove the crosshatch appearance for each. I felt that it looked better that way. I also chose to limit the roads to major and secondary only. Fun little project.

Sometimes tough to digitize with the shadows. A great product for editing data is the Georover Locus track extension. You can get a free trial from the makers at SAIC.com.

Georeferencing Lab

RMS Error for uwf_n was 16.06831 First order

RMS Error for uwf_s was 74.8255 Second Order

Had an easy time of it until I had to enter more control points. Seemed to skew my map more and distort my RMS error on the second Raster.