Location Suitability Analysis for a Coffee Bean Farm
Document Type
Panel Presentation
Keywords
Male, Agriculture, Geography
Biography
My name is Sam Powvall. I am 49 years old and I live in San Diego, California. My hobbies are exercising and learning golf. I work for a water resource engineering company that specializes in floodplain analysis. Other things I enjoy are watching movies and helping other people. I have one son, he is 21 years old. I am the first in my family to go to a 4-year college.
Major
Geography
Advisor for this project
Dr. Jonathan Kozar
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to find land that is best suited for farming coffee beans. This study is important because it can improve an economy. One of the ways to make improvements to an economy is through agriculture. The geographic area of interest is northeast San Diego County, California. The use of Geographic Information System (GIS), ArcGIS, was used to create layers of data that are important when growing coffee beans. The GIS layers are topography, soil, and climate. The GIS results provided values of highly suitable, suitable, marginally suitable, and not suitable areas. Many areas were marginally suitable and not suitable amounting to 93 percent (8,292 acres) of the total eligible area (8,864 acres). Highly suitable and suitable areas amounted to 7 percent (572 acres) of the total eligible area.
Location Suitability Analysis for a Coffee Bean Farm
The purpose of this research is to find land that is best suited for farming coffee beans. This study is important because it can improve an economy. One of the ways to make improvements to an economy is through agriculture. The geographic area of interest is northeast San Diego County, California. The use of Geographic Information System (GIS), ArcGIS, was used to create layers of data that are important when growing coffee beans. The GIS layers are topography, soil, and climate. The GIS results provided values of highly suitable, suitable, marginally suitable, and not suitable areas. Many areas were marginally suitable and not suitable amounting to 93 percent (8,292 acres) of the total eligible area (8,864 acres). Highly suitable and suitable areas amounted to 7 percent (572 acres) of the total eligible area.
