The following vector data layer was applied to all boolean and analyses maps for reference to provide better land/water contrast but also for enchantment regarding the extent of the area being studied.

i) COSATLINE.vct - distance to Coastline

This vector file was orginally obtained in ERSI Shaple file (.shp). However, this shape file was separated into 6 shapefiels (it took 6 1:20000 map sheets to provide compoplete areal coverage of the North Shore Mountains) in which each one corvered a particular mapsheet in BC (there are 7,027covering the province of British Columbia). Combinnig these 6 map sheets was crtiical becuase the vector layer is to provide  land/water contrast regarding the extent of the area being studied in this project. The GeoProcessing Wizard (under the spatail analysis tool) in ArcView made this possslble. Finally, the combined shape fiel was converted into Idirsi format by using a program called FME Universal Translater.

Date Source: Land Data BC