Geography/GIS Assume that you are a GIS specialist consultant for the Long Beach

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Assume that you are a GIS specialist consultant for the Long Beach Fire Department. You are asked to inform them how many fire stations they should have in each area A and area B to cover the areas with best efficiency considering travel time and budget. FYI, the areas A and B are not adjacent. According to them one fire station can cover areas within 6 miles of distance from the station. They also provided you an empirical GIS point dataset that shows locations where fire occurred in the areas A and B. Using ArcGIS you just measured the mean center of the given points and the standard distance for the area A, and did the same measurement for the area B. Your results show that the standard distance of the area A is 5 miles and that of the area B is 8 miles. Then how many fire station(s) would you recommend the Fire Department to have for each area A and area B?

Explanation / Answer

We know areas A and B are not adjacent. The dataset are the cordinates of the locations wher the fire occured in the areas A and B. Using these cordinates we get the Mean centers were calculated and the Standard distance from the mean centersres were identified at 5 miles in area A and 8 miles in area B.

However, a single fire station lets say at the mean center can cover a distance of upto 6 miles. Thus area A would be recommended 1 fire station at the mean center covering the entire region (Min.). But area B with a standard distance of 8 miles would be difficult to cover with one Fire station thus, min. two fire stations with a distance of min. 4 km between each other within the area B.

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