So once we've defined our cover classes for community and we've also defined our project
boundaries. In this case here we're looking at Worcester MA and we can see the municipal
boundaries of the city have been defined. I can zoom in a little closer to get a good
view of that. The red line here indicating the edges of the municipal bound. So once
that's complete, we're ready to begin our project and we've already clearly defined
our canopy cover classes, and in this case here we have trees and groundcover. We have
a shrub layer, as well as impervious materials and water . You can see that there is no data
in here but each one of those are ready to accept data from our survey. So the first
step will be going over here onto our ID number, and we will click new point and we will add
a point. What the Google Maps will do is actually going to find a point location on our map
- randomly selected spot within the defined project area. In this case we're looking at
the backyard, or a yard, and it looks like a lawn area. So what we're going to do is
look at our cover class. In this case here we will call it ground cover. And what we'll
do is we just simply hit next and we go to our next point. In this case here if you look
at it you'll see it's in the side yard of a property here, and also again report that
it is groundcover. And then we'll go ahead and just simply repeat the process. These
randomly generated plots will appear throughout our study area and as we go through each look
and see. Now, this one here clearly defines and if you look closer we can zoom in a little,
and see a tree. I am going to leave that as a tree and will go to the next point. And
you keep repeating this process over and over. In this case there is a rooftop so we will
call that impervious area. Again repeat. This point here is in a street - impervious area.
Going to define our point and continue along. This one here looks like it's a small tree
in the yard. We will report that as a tree and will keep moving along. this one clearly
shows trees, and click to the next point. As we go through this process you see these
points up top here change based on - you'll see our report by area, and our percent cover.
You can also report by the square-mile of the reported area. But we really only have
eight points done so far. We're going to continue this process until we find a representative
sample of the whole community. In many cases we're looking between 700 and 1200 points.
In this case here we're looking at the edge of a tree in what appears to me as a cemetery.
I'm going to go ahead and pic that as a tree and move to our next point here. So we repeat
the process. This is a rooftop of a building. Again we're going to call that impervious
and move on. As we go through this process, here we have a gravel pit, again will call
that impervious and move to the next point. You see these are trees - okay? So the main
thing is you also want to save your data as you go through this process. In this case
here I would click on the bottom where it has the point for saving our data. In this
case here will put in Worcester and .dat which is the default. I'll might not have to put
that extension, since it automatically does that in the window. And we go ahead and save
it on our computer where it saves it to our downloads, where we have that data to be archived
and saved. So that basically goes through the whole process of imputing your data and
our next video will show you a little bit on saving your data, reporting your data as
well as archiving the components.