Overview

What is the shortest route between one point and another in a road network? Where is the incidence of disease the highest? How does rainfall correlate with altitude? How does the concentration of a pollutant vary in space, and where do high concentrations correlate with densely populated areas?Geographical or spatial data play a vital role in many parts of daily life. We are dependent on information about where things are located and about the attributes of those things, either directly, as in the use of a map for navigating around a city, or indirectly, where we use resources like water or gas. Making use of spatial data requires a whole set of approaches to extract information from those data and make them useful. Underpinning these approaches is the analysis of data. Spatial Data Analysis introduces key principles about spatial data and provides guidance on methods for their exploration; it provides a set of key ideas or frameworks that will give the reader knowledge of the kinds of problems that can be tackled using the tools that are widely available for the analysis of spatial data.The approach is gradual and systematic; the initial focus is on themes that follow through the rest of the book. These key ideas are introduced, illustrated, and restated to ensure that readers develop a clear understanding of them. Beyond careful explanations, a clear understanding is fostered still further by numerous worked examples and case studies. In short, the stress is on first principles and reinforcement of key ideas throughout - on education rather than simply training, based on the conviction that users of spatial data analysis tools should know something about how the approaches work rather than simply how to apply them.

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Author:   Christopher Lloyd (School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queens University, Belfast)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9780199554324

ISBN 10:   0199554323
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   03 December 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1: Spatial data analysis 1.2: Purpose of the book 1.3: Key concepts 1.4: Structure of the book 1.5: Further reading Chapter 2. Key concepts 1: GIS 2.1: Introduction 2.1: Data and data models 2.2.1: Raster data 2.2.2: Vector data 2.2.3: Topology 2.2.4: Rasters and vectors in GIS software 2.3: Databases 2.3.1: Database management 2.3.2: The Geodatabase 2.4: Referencing systems and projections 2.5: Georeferencing 2.6: Geocoding 2.7: Spatial scale 2.8: Spatial data collection 2.8.1: Spatial sampling 2.8.2: Secondary data analysis 2.8.3: Remote sensing 2.8.4: Ground survey 2.9: Sources of data error 2.9.1: Uncertainty in spatial data analysis 2.10: Visualising spatial data 2.11: Querying data 2.11.1: Boolean logic 2.12: Summary 2.13: Further reading Chapter 3. Key concepts 2: statistics 3.1: Introduction 3.2: Univariate statistics 3.3: Multivariate statistics 3.4: Inferential statistics 3.5: Statistics and spatial data 3.6: Summary 3.7: Further reading Chapter 4. Key concepts 3: spatial data analysis 4.1: Introduction 4.2: Distances 4.3: Measuring lengths and perimeters 4.3.1: Length of vector features 4.4: Measuring areas 4.4.1: Areas of polygons 4.5: Distances from objects: buffers 4.5.1: Vector buffers 4.5.2: Raster proximity 4.6: Moving windows: basic statistics in sub-regions 4.7: Geographical weights 4.8: Spatial dependence and spatial autocorrelation 4.9: The ecological fallacy and the modifiable areal unit problem 4.10: Merging polygons 4.11: Summary 4.12: Further reading Chapter 5. Combining data layers 5.1: Introduction 5.2: Multiple features: overlays 5.2.1: Point in polygon 5.2.2: Overlay operators 5.2.3: 'Cookie cutter' operations: erase and clip 5.2.4: Applications and problems 5.3: Multicriteria decision analysis 5.4: Case study 5.5: Summary 5.6: Further reading Chapter 6. Network analysis 6.1: Introduction 6.2: Networks 6.3: Network connectivity 6.4: Summaries of network characteristics 6.5: Identifying shortest paths 6.6: The travelling salesperson problem 6.7: Location-allocation problems 6.8: Case study 6.9: Summary 6.10: Further reading Chapter 7. Exploring spatial point patterns 7.1: Introduction 7.2: Basic measures 7.3: Exploring spatial variations in point intensity 7.3.1: Quadrats 7.3.2: Kernel estimation 7.4: measures based on distances between events 7.4.1: Nearest neighbour methods 7.4.2: K function 7.5: Applications and other issues 7.6: Case study 7.7: Summary 7.8: Further reading Chapter 8. Exploring spatial patterning in data values 8.1: Introduction 8.2: Spatial autocorrelation 8.3: Local statistics 8.4: Local univariate measures 8.4.1: Local spatial autocorrelation 8.5: Regression and correlation 8.5.1: Spatial regression 8.5.2: Moving window regression (MWR) 8.5.3: Geographically weighted regression (GWR) 8.6: Other approaches 8.7: Case studies 8.7.1: Spatial autocorrelation analysis 8.7.2: GWR 8.8: Summary 8.9: Further reading Chapter 9. Spatial interpolation 9.1: Introduction 9.2: Interpolation 9.3: Triangulated irregular networks 9.4: Regression for prediction 9.4.1: Trend surface analysis 9.5: Inverse distance weighting 9.6: Thin plate splines 9.7: Ordinary kriging 9.7.1: Variogram 9.7.2: Kriging 9.7.3: Cokriging 9.8: Other approaches and other issues 9.9: Areal interpolation 9.10: Case studies 9.10.1: Variogram estimation 9.10.2: Spatial interpolation 9.11: Summary 9.12: Further reading Chapter 10. Analysis of grids and surfaces 10.1: Introduction 10.2: Map algebra 10.3: Image processing 10.4: Spatial filters 10.5: Derivatives of altitude 10.6: Other products derived from surfaces 10.7: Case study 10.8: Summary 10.9: Further reading Chapter 11. Summary 11.1: Review of key concepts 11.2: Other issues 11.3: Problems 11.4: Where next? 11.5: Summary and conclusions References Appendix A. Matrix multiplication Appendix B. The exponential function Appendix C. The inverse tangent Appendix D. Line Intersection Appendix E. Ordinary least squares Appendix F. Ordinary kriging system Appendix G. Problems and solutions

Reviews

It has long been this reviewers contention that if a student is taught the fundamentals and theory of geographic information systems, then all one has to ask is how does a particular software package do what I need? With this textbook Lloyd has achieved what he stated and provides a great resource for understanding advanced topics in spatial data analysis. Joe Aufmuth, University of Florida in Journal of Spatial Science

It has long been this reviewers contention that if a student is taught the fundamentals and theory of geographic information systems, then all one has to ask is how does a particular software package do what I need? With this textbook Lloyd has achieved what he stated and provides a great resource for understanding advanced topics in spatial data analysis. Joe Aufmuth, University of Florida in Journal of Spatial Science The authors approach in this text definitely strikes a chord not simply as a source for the geography user but also for wider clients of geographic information science (GISc). In favouring an education approach (rather than training), the book captures a progression of knowledge for the GISc undergraduate.The author has clearly faced the tribulations of constructing GISc/GIS courses and the focus reflected in this books approach and content are well worth consideration. Geography, Autumn 2011

Author Information

Chris Lloyd is a Lecturer in Geography (GIS) in the School of Geography, Archaeology, and Paleoecology at Queen's University, Belfast.

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