Urban Bird Populations in Vancouver - A Spatial Analysis

1. Bird Counts in Vancouver from 1976-2016              collected from Christmas Bird Count Survey

• information on bird sightings in Vancouver for over 250 species of birds

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2. Landsat 7 Satellite Imagery                                         collected from GloVis

• utilized bands 4, 3, and 2 to create false colour Infrared images

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3. Lanes, One Way Streets, and Non-City Streets       collected from City of Vancouver Open Catalogue

• isolated the busy, high traffic streets like major arterials and highways

 

4. Rapid Transit Lines

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5. Park Polygons

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6. Greenways

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7. City Trees

• point layer showing the location of all the trees within the city

 

8. City of Vancouver Boundaries

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9. Local Neighbourhood Boundaries

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10. Zoning Districts

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11. Building Footprints (2009)

• organized by average building height

 

12. Demographic Statistics (2011)                                 collected from Stats Canada

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Below are some visual representations of the layers that were incorporated into our analysis. From top to bottom: a map displaying the building heights, a map of the reclassified euclidean distances to road network and a simple image displaying the location of parks and greenways in the city.