Lesson04

IS415 GeoSpatial Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Geospatial Analytics Project

Course Resources

Beyond Mapping: Vector-based GIS Analysis

Lesson slides

Vector-Based GIS Analysis

Geoprocessing Techniques

• CLIP
• DISSOLVE
• APPEND
• SPLIT
• APPEND
• ERASE

Proximity Analysis

• Buffering
• Thiessen Polygon

Spatial SQL

• Spatial relationship

Trade Area Analysis

• Defining trade areas
• Examples of trade areas
• Factors that influence trade area
• GIS-based trade area analysis process
• GIS-based trade area delineation techniques

Hands-on Session

The Power of Proximity - Trade Area Analysis (Handout)

• Preparing the base layers
• Delineating ring trade areas
• Delineating merged ring trade areas
• Delineating theissen polygons
• Preparing composite trade areas
• Visualising and analysing trade areas

References

Trade Area Analysis

• Retail Trade Area Analysis: Concepts and New Approaches

• Trade Area Definition and Calculation [1]

• Shopping Mall Trade Area Analysis[2]

• Downtown and Business District Market Analysis -> Understand the Market: Trade Area Analysis

Vector-based GIS Analysis

• Buffer Operations in GIS [3]

• Voronoi diagram [4].

• Overlay Analysis[5]

• Error propagation modeling in GIS polygon overlay [6]

• How Static Rings (Business Analyst) works [7]

• How Thiessen Polygons (Business Analyst) works [8]

• How Data Driven Rings (Business Analyst) works [9]

Discussion

Discussion Lesson 5