This operation was committed to identifying all water bodies to make them a constraint for the multi-criteria evaluation.  They are considered a constraint because they would not be acceptable locations for a wheat farm.

Methodology

• I had unprojected river and lake data in vector format, so I first used the PROJECT module on each file which I called "lakesproj" and "riversproj".
• I then rasterized them using original raster data from my base image "aprcann2", calling it them "lakesprojras" and "riversprojras".
• I used OVERLAY on "riverprojras" and "lakesprojras" to give me "allwaterbodies".
• I performed a boolean operation on both files to simply identify the location of each waterbody.
• I used EDIT and ASSIGN to create a boolean image on "allwaterbodies" and produced "allwaterbodiesbool".

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