Lesson02

IS415 GeoSpatial Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Geospatial Analytics Project

Course Resources

The Evil is in The Data

Lesson02 slides

Geospatial Data Models and Modelling

Representing Real World Geography

• Digital representation
• The fundamental problem
• The spatial data models
• Topology data models

Georeferencing

• Basic concepts of projections and coordinates
• Georeferencing
• Geocoding

Geospatial data modelling

• Geospatial database design
• Spatial Metadata
• Spatial indexing
• Multi-user editing and versioning

Geospatial Data Repositories

• File-based
• Geospatial RDBMS
• Cloud based geospatial database

Before Class Readings

A Gentle Introduction to GIS, sections on:

• Vector Data,
• Vector Attribute Data,
• Raster Data,
• Topology, and
• Coordinates Reference Systems.

Hands-on Session

Week 2: Working with Geospatial Data (The hands-on exercise handout and dataset are available in Dropbox)

References

ESRI Press (1999) Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design

Map Projection

Geocoding

Discussion

Discussion Lesson 02