Rationale

USING IDRISI AS A DECISION SUPPORT GIS

Rationale and Methodology

The location of the school in the Greater Vancouver Regional District is influenced by a number of constraints:

1.It can only be built on undeveloped zones, commercial/residential mixed areas and some parts of the agricultural zones.

2.It has to be within 3 km of the highway, in order to help commuters reduce the amount of travel.

3.To better recruit students, the new school is to be built at least 8 km away from the BCIT Burnaby Campus.

4.The campus needs to be on mostly flat area, no more than 2.5 degrees of slope, and south facing.

5.The campus requires at least 1.5 square kilometers in area.

Data Used

IDRISI layers representing these areas are processed to produce a map that represents the areas potentially ready for the establishment of the new polytechnic institute.