Geo 4427 - Spring 2021 Professor: Dr. Yihong Yuan Lab Instructor: Khan Mortuza Bin Asad
The U.S. Census Bureau has named the Austin area one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in America, growing in population by almost 30% from 2010 to 2019 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020).Tree Planting Location Services (TPLS) was commissioned by Alan Halter and the City of Austin Urban Forestry Program to update the existing community tree priority areas map by finding all of the available space within Austin's city limits that could be used for planting new trees as of 2021. TPLS conducted this research by using GIS to remove the currently existing canopy, impervious cover, surface water, and other areas that cannot be used for planting, leaving behind only the areas that could potentially be used for tree planting.	The Emerald Crown Trail is a proposed trail network system connecting the municipalities of Hays County, Texas. As the Central Texas region continues to attract more people, there is a growing need for transportation and recreation resources. A web map was created using ESRI Web AppBuilder. The web map was designed to garner community and stakeholder interest and provide a common point of reference for the groups constructing the trail.
San Antonio, Texas is a rapidly growing metropolitan area in the Central Texas region, and one of multiple major cities experiencing homelessness amongst youth and young adults. This rapid growth has created an increasing need for resources and information regarding homelessness. The South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH) is an organization that looks to combat this problem by establishing access points that provide food, showers, recreation, and community outreach to the displaced youth of Bexar County. Along with these access points, drop-in centers provide information to not only homeless youth, but also to those who are at-risk of becoming homeless. Texas Location Solutions (TLS) has collaborated with SARAH in an expansion project that will provide four to five potential access point locations (two of which will be drop-in centers) that will provide homeless-based resources and services.