Suitability Analysis

For the suitability analysis, I had to produce a map showing an equally weighted overlay and an unequally weighted overlay map. I worked with five layers: river, roads, elevation, soils and landcover. I reclassified the elevation. soils, landcover layers and assigned suitability ratings. I also had to convert the soil from polygon to raster. For the rivers and roads layers, I used the euclidian distance tool and assigned suitability ratings to the ranges. I used the weighted overlay tool to combine all four of the raster layers and produced two maps: 20% for the equal on each landcover, elevation, rivers, and roads. For the unequal, 40% land cover, 20% soil, 20% elevation, 10% roads, and 10% rivers.