This is the result of my GIS midterm…. after many greuling nights in the GIS lab. The premise was to use training data (from one side of the island) to predict the possible locations of ironwood groves on the other side of the island using various criteria such as slope, aspect (the direction the slope is facing), rock type and proximity to the sea (since seaspray inhibits ironwood growth). These patches of suitable habitat are contiguous patches of land that meet the ideal conditions for Ironwood growth. Essentially, accurate predictions refers to the number of “suitable habitat patches” groves which overlap with actual ironwood groves, commission errors are the number of suitable habitat patches that do NOT overlap with actual ironwood groves and omission errors refer to the percentage of ironwood groves on the island that overlap with patches of suitable habitat.
Anyway, the layout isn’t as nice because that wasn’t the point of the lab (and also I didn’t want to spend another minute working on it)
Enjoy!
Ironwood PDF
Naturally Geographic 