Blog #5

I chose this picture because it is amazing the amount of trouble the disaster in Fukushima has cause. The color scheme basically depicts the percentage chance that the vegetation in the area has levels of 0.24Bq/kg of Cesium 137, essentially radioactive waste from the fallout. While these levels have been shown from Chernobyl studies to not be of major detriment to humans, a loss of vegetation may have a large impact on the population.

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/1012/modeling-contamination-using-empirical-bayesian-kriging.html