Hi,
I'm a new beginner to this, so please bare with me.
I'm calculating inundated area within a certain case study site to various flooding intervals. It was OK with number of buildings and length of roads, but I have problems with land use (industrial area, populated area etc).
1. First I clipped the land use shape file with the study area so I only had the land use within designated area.
2. I used this layer to clip with the the flooding intervals
3. Used Calculate Field, and everything looked fine in the dbf file where I found info on area flooded.
BUT, then I wanted to calculate % flooded in relation to the various land use categories within the study area. In the attribute table of the clipped land use layer it says SUM AREA for each variable (industrial area, populated are etc), is that the same as area within the designated case study area? I thought it would be a column called 'AREA'. the numbers don't make sense!