Setting up a basic ArcGIS model and converting it into a script.

This assignment was fairly basic. A simple geoprocessing operation was constructed using the ArcGIS Model Builder, which was then exported to a standalone python script.

The process took shapefile with soil data and clipped it to encompass just the area of a small basin defined in a separate shapefile. The clipped layer was then run through the selection tool to identify poor soils via an entry in the attribute table and then the selected features of the layer were erased using the erase tool. The result is the layer depicted below.

Only the best soils.