Data Preparation

All of the attributes taken into consideration for this study were taken from the Oregon Geospatial Data Clearinghouse except for the climate zones information which was taking from the Oregon Climate Service located at Oregon State University. Table 1 below shows the original data and their initial formats.

Table 1

File Name	Initial Form	Attribute
Beach	shapefile	public beach acess point and boat ramp locations
Cities	shapefile	derived from 1:2,000,000 scale maps
Climate Zones	Jpeg	9 zones from the Oregon Climate Service
Ecoregions	.e00 file	10 ecoregions decsribing the geology of the area
Forested Land	shapefile	Manual interpretation of hardcopy colour composites
Highways	shapefile	All state owned or maintained highways
Oregon Outline	shapefile	Used for vectorization of Oregon boundary
Land Ownership	shapefile	Scanned and vectorized by The State Service Center for GIS
Railroads	shapefile	Produced by Oregon Department of Transportation
Tsunami Inundation Line	shapefile	Inundation of Oregon's coast if an earthquake produced a tsunami (Senate Bill 379)
Utilities	.e00	All main utiltiy lines
Waterbodies	shapefile	Derived from 1:2,000,000 scale maps
Zoning	shapefile	Generalized zoning throughout Oregon