Top:36.3199999992
Left:-112.341666666
Right:-111.721944444
Bottom:35.9616666659
Geographic Coordinate System:
GCS_North_American_1983
D_North_American_1983
For this exercise, I pick a section of the Grand Canyon and did elevation analysis on it. Grand Canyon is a national park located in Arizona. This beautiful landscape runs 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and up to 1 mile deep. It was believed that the land was slowly eroded and carved through by a river, what is now known as the Colorado River. A reason for having low elevations such as seen in the slope data. The deepest point of the canyon is over 6000 feet, while its highest elevation is at 8800. There are huge difference between its lowest and highest points of elevation is due to the river erosion and uplifting. I find this place to be noteworthy and interesting to do a digital elevation model on it because of its elevation differences. The 3D map was especially striking to me since I got a get a three-dimensional feel to the difference of the elevations as I move and rotate the map around.
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