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I have a line that goes through sections of land in which has attribute data assigned to it. I want to compute out how long of pipe goes through each different type of land.
As you can see, the cyan lines are the boundaries of land and this one happens to have the attribute "Cultivated_Crops".
The best way I know of doing this is through autocad just measuring the distance by hand. I'm not sure of any quick solution.
Intersect your parcels and pipeline then add length field and calculate. That is assuming your parcels are polygons. This will add the parcel attributes to the lines, clipping them at intersections.
From here it would be a good idea to summarize the attributes for length on each unique parcel ID; in some cases a line might zigzag in and out of a parcel or due to the parcels' shape intersect twice, summarizing will give the total length within each parcel.
Before you do this though make sure your data (all of it) is in a suitable projected coordinate system or your lengths would be nonsensical.
